cloth
A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.
Noun 4 meanings
A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.
“Near-synonyms: (not always differentiated) fabric, material (fabric sense), textile; see also Thesaurus:fabric”
Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
Etymology
From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþ, from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (“garment”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”) (compare Albanian ngjit (“to stick, attach, glue”)), a form of *gleh₁y- (“to smear; to stick”).
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CLOTH at a glance
CLOTH has 5 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + L 1 + O 1 + T 1 + H 4) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,666 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with cloth
All rhymesOne letter away
- SLOTH8
- CLOTS7
- CLOTE7
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