tweed
/twiːd/
tweed noun: a coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
Noun
tweed (countable and uncountable, plural tweeds)
- A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
- MICHAEL NOWAK, alias John Mazurkiewiez, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April, 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called tweed, value 12s., and 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called doe-skin, value 17s., […]1839, Great Britain. Central Criminal Court, Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence, page 75
- “Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!
Proper noun capitalized: Tweed
Tweed (countable and uncountable, plural Tweeds)
- A river in the United Kingdom; a river in the Scottish Borders area which for part of its length forms the border between Scotland and England. It flows into the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth, England.
- The Tweed is a salmon river, and the Blessing of the Nets ceremony heralds the start of the fishing season.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 296
- Synonyms:
- River Tweed
- A municipality and community therein, in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.
- A local government area in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, named after the Tweed River; in full, Tweed Shire.
- A river in this region of New South Wales.
- A surname.
tweed meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
tweed in Hindi
- टवीड
tweed in Tamil
- துவீட்டு
tweed in Urdu
- ٹیویڈ
tweed in Bengali
- টুইড
More languagesFewer languages
- tweed in Telugu
- ట్వీడ్, ట్వెడ్
- tweed in Malayalam
- ഒരുതരം കമ്പിളിത്തുണി
- tweed in Kannada
- ಟ್ವೀಡ್, ಟ್ವೆಡ್
- tweed in Punjabi
- ਟਵੀਡ, ਟਵੀਡ ਕਰੋ
- tweed in Gujarati
- ટ્વીડ
- tweed in Odia
- ଟ୍ବିଡ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ, ଟ୍ବିଡ୍, ଟ୍ୱିଡ୍
- tweed in Nepali
- ट्वीड, ट्वेड
Examples of tweed in a sentence
- Later Mattie, the 'head beetler' of my father's family, arrived wearing his customary tweed jacket.
- Olivey tweed suits used to be quite common for country-house wear.
- I wear a tweed sportjacket with lots of green wool in it.
Synonyms of tweed
- River Tweed
Forms of tweed
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tweeds |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Tweeds |
Origin of tweed
Attested since the 1830s. Probably a shortening or back-formation from Scots tweedling (“a type of twilled cloth”), attested since the 16th century and related to tweedle; the two words are variants of tweeling and tweel, which go back to Middle English twel, twyle (“a type of woven fabric; twill”), whence also English twill. Scottish tradition says it derives directly from tweel when an English merchant misread tweels or tweeled (cloth) in an 1831 letter from a Scottish merchant as Tweed(s) and took it to be a trade-name based on the River Tweed, but the DSL says evidence for this is lacking, and because English merchants must have been familiar with tweel(ed cloth) before the 1830s, it seems unlikely to be based on misunderstanding tweel rather than on the well-attested tweedle. Several of the earliest citations, from 1839, 1841, and 1845 treat it as a new name for a familiar cloth.
Words formed from tweed
Words that rhyme with tweed
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- weed
- proceed
- stampede
- concede
- accede
- deed
- exceed
- need
- bede
- knead
- mislead
- plead
- rede
- swede
- cede
- creed
- godspeed
- heed
- intercede
- keyed
- leed
- meed
- precede
- recede
- tumbleweed
- a friend in need is a friend indeed
- beread
- greed
- he'd
- indeed
- interbreed
- kneed
- mead
- secede
- she'd
- sneed
- steed
- supersede
- underfeed
- we'd
- ye'd
- agreed
- anasheed
- aniseed
- atheed
- caid
- co-feed
- cofeed
Questions about tweed
- What does tweed mean?
- Tweed means a coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
- What is tweed in Hindi?
- Tweed in Hindi is टवीड. See Tweed meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tweed?
- Tweed can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tweed?
- Tweed is pronounced /twiːd/.
- What is the plural of tweed?
- The plural of tweed is tweeds.
Words near tweed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tweed (page history and authors); Tweed (page history and authors); tweed (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tweed (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tweed (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tweed (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tweed (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tweed (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tweed (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tweed (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tweed (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tweed (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tweed (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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