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textiles

textiles is the plural of textile.

Noun

textiles

  1. The industry involved in the manufacture of cloth.
  2. The study of the manufacture of cloth.

Meaning of textile

Noun

textile (plural textiles)

  1. (plural-normally) Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.
    • Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
    Synonyms:
    fabric, material, cloth
  2. A non-nudist.
    Antonyms:
    nudist, naturist

See all 3 meanings of textile

Questions about textiles

What does textiles mean?
Textiles means the industry involved in the manufacture of cloth.
What is textiles the plural of?
Textiles is the plural of textile.
What part of speech is textiles?
Textiles is a noun.

Words near textiles in the dictionary

  1. textile banana
  2. textile bananas
  3. textile cone
  4. textile cones
  5. textilelike
  6. textiles
  7. textililin
  8. textilinin
  9. textilism
  10. textilist
  11. textilists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: textiles (page history and authors); textile (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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