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EVENING DRESS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does evening dress mean?

• EVENING DRESS (noun)
The noun EVENING DRESS has 1 sense:

1. attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening

Familiarity information: EVENING DRESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EVENING DRESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

evening clothes; evening dress; eveningwear; formalwear

Hypernyms ("evening dress" is a kind of...):

attire; dress; garb (clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evening dress"):

balldress (a suit or dress for formal occasions)

dinner dress; dinner gown; evening gown; formal (a gown for evening wear)

black tie; dinner jacket; tux; tuxedo (semiformal evening dress for men)

dress suit; full dress; tail coat; tailcoat; tails; white tie; white tie and tails (formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men)

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