Coat: Definition and part of speech

Coat

  1. n. A coat card. See below.
  2. n. An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.
  3. n. A petticoat.
  4. n. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
  5. n. An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.
  6. n. A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.
  7. n. Same as Coat of arms. See below.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Leave a Comment