tailor
UK/ˈteɪlə//ˈteɪlɚ/
tailor noun: a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
Noun
tailor (plural tailors)
- A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
- He works as a tailor on Swanston Street.
- Synonyms:
- needleworker, tailorer
- Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
- The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.1880, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Journal (volume 30, part 3, page 460)
- Synonyms:
- bluefish
Verb
tailor (third-person singular simple present tailors, present participle tailoring, simple past and past participle tailored)
- To make, repair, or alter clothes.
- We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.
- Synonyms:
- fit
- To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
- The website was tailored to the client's needs.
- [C]aregivers from diverse backgrounds may experience variations in the emergence of depressive symptoms, necessitating distinct strategies for support tailored to their individual needs.2024 December 16, Amanda M. Y. Chu, Damen H. Y. Woo, Agnes Tiwari, Helina Yuk, Mike K. P. So, “Which types of family caregivers are more prone to developing depression? Leveraging non-financial...
- To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.
- a narrowly tailored law
- Synonyms:
- shape
Proper noun capitalized: Tailor
Tailor (plural Tailors)
- A surname originating as an occupation for a tailor.
tailor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tailor in Hindi
- person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
- दर्ज़ी darzī
tailor in Tamil
- person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
- தையற்கலைஞர் taiyaṟkalaiñar
tailor in Marathi
- tailor
- शिंपी śimpī
tailor in Urdu
- person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing as profession
- دَرْزی darzī, خَیَّاط xayyāt
More languagesFewer languages
- tailor in Bengali
- দর্জি dorji, দরজী dorji, দরজি dorji
- tailor in Telugu
- దర్జీ darjī
- tailor in Malayalam
- തയ്യൽക്കാരൻ
- tailor in Kannada
- ದರ್ಜಿ, ಚಿಪ್ಪಿಗ, ಸಿಂಪಿ, ಹೊಲಿಗ
- tailor in Punjabi
- ਦਰਜ਼ੀ darzī, ਦਰਜ਼ਣ darzaṇ
- tailor in Gujarati
- દરજી darjī
- tailor in Sanskrit
- सौचिक saucika
- tailor in Assamese
- দৰ্জী dorzi
- tailor in Pashto
- خياط xayāt
- tailor in Tagalog
- mananahi, sastre
- tailor in Arabic
- خَيَّاط ḵayyāṭ, خَيَّاطَة ḵayyāṭa, تَرْزِي tarzī, تَرْزِيَّة tarziyya
- tailor in Malay
- tukang jahit, jahit
- tailor in Indonesian
- penjahit
- tailor in Thai
- ช่างตัดเสื้อ châang-dtàt-sʉ̂ʉa
- tailor in Vietnamese
- thợ may
- tailor in Myanmar
- အပ်ချုပ်သမား aphkyupsa.ma:
Examples of tailor in a sentence
- My feet are very large, so I need custom shoes, specially made by a custom tailor.
- I had a suit fitted by the tailor.
- While measuring him for his trousers, the tailor asked him if he dressed to the left or the right.
Synonyms of tailor
- needleworker
- bluefish
- fit
- shape
- tailorer
Forms of tailor
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tailors |
| alternative form (obsolete) | tailour |
| alternative form (obsolete) | taylor |
| alternative form (obsolete) | taylour |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tailors |
| present participle | tailoring |
| past participle | tailored |
| past | tailored |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Tailors |
Origin of tailor
Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur. Compare typologically German Schneider (akin to English snithe); Macedonian кројач (krojač), Polish krawiec (akin to Proto-Slavic *krojiti).
From tailor. Doublet of Taylor.
Words formed from tailor
- merchant tailor
- tailorage
- tailorbird
- tailorcraft
- tailordom
- tailoress
- tailor-fashion
- tailorhood
- tailorism
- tailorize
- tailorless
- tailorlike
- tailorly
- tailor-made
- tailor make
- tailor-make
- tailorman
- tailor's chalk
- tailor's dummy
- tailor's goose
- tailor's ham
- tailorship
- tailor's muscle
- tailor-style
- tailorwise
- tinker tailor grass
- Tooley Street tailor
- retailor
- tailorability
- tailorable
Phrases with tailor
Words that rhyme with tailor
Questions about tailor
- What does tailor mean?
- Tailor means a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
- What is tailor in Hindi?
- Tailor in Hindi is दर्ज़ी (darzī). See Tailor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tailor?
- Tailor can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tailor?
- Tailor is pronounced /ˈteɪlɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of tailor?
- The plural of tailor is tailors.
Words near tailor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tailor (page history and authors); Tailor (page history and authors); शिंपी (Marathi) (page history and authors); tailor (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tailor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सौचिक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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