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tights

/taɪts/

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British/tɑjts/

tights noun: a close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of tight.

tights: a close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that...
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Noun

tights pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.
    Synonyms:
    pantyhose
  2. (plural, plural-only) A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers.
  3. (plural, plural-only) A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers.
  4. (plural, plural-only) In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.

Also used as

tights is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of tight.

tights meaning in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi

tights in Telugu

టైట్స్

tights in Malayalam

ടൈറ്റുകൾ, ടൈറ്റ്സ്

tights in Kannada

ಬಿಗಿಯುಡುಪುಗಳು, ಟೈಟ್ಸ್

tights in Punjabi

ਟਾਈਟਸ
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tights in Gujarati
ટાઈટ્સ
tights in Nepali
टाईटहरू, टाईट्स

Examples of tights in a sentence

  • In front of the darkened electric fire stood a wooden clothes horse draped with tights and underwear.
  • Famous last words from a male dancer who has never worn tights or a dance belt.
  • I didn't wear tights with a dance belt for the first six months.

All 21 example sentences with tights

Synonyms of tights

Origin of tights

From tight + -s.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Phrases with tights

Words that rhyme with tights

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Questions about tights

What does tights mean?
Tights means a close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.
What is tights in Telugu?
Tights in Telugu is టైట్స్. See Tights meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is tights?
Tights is a noun.
How do you pronounce tights?
Tights is pronounced /taɪts/ (UK).

Words near tights in the dictionary

  1. tightroped
  2. tightroper
  3. tightropers
  4. tightropes
  5. tightroping
  6. tights
  7. tightsome
  8. tightum
  9. tightwad
  10. tightwaddish
  11. tightwads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tights (page history and authors); tights (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tights (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tights (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tights (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tights (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tights (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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