gown

English

Etymology

From Middle English gowne, from Anglo-Norman goune, gune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”). Cognate with Manx gooyn, Irish gúna.

Pronunciation

• enPR: goun, IPA^(key): /ɡaʊn/

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• Rhymes: -aʊn

Noun

(sense 2) Tea gown

gown (plural gowns)

1. A loose, flowing upper garment.
3. A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
4. The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     VVhat is he an honeſt man? the deuill he is, he is the Parſon of the Towne,
     You thinke ther’s no knauerie hid vnder a black gowne, […]

   1. The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
5. (by metonymy) The university community, especially as contrasted with the local populace.

   In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.

6. A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
7. Any sort of dress or garb.
8. The robe worn by a surgeon.

Derived terms

• ballgown
• bedgown
• begown
• begowned
• Bluegown
• bouffant gown
• cap and gown
• commoner's gown
• disgown
• dressing-gown
• dressing gown
• evening gown
• fire-gown
• Geneva gown
• gownless
• gownlike
• gownmaker
• gownsman
• green gown
• hospital gown
• mandarin gown
• Maria Clara gown
• morning gown
• nightgown
• old gown
• powdering gown
• scholar's gown
• sea gown
• shortgown
• stuff gown
• suicide gown
• surgical gown
• tea-gown
• tea gown
• town and gown
• town-and-gown
• undergown
• ungown
• ungowned
• wedding gown
• wrapping gown

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: গাউন (gaun)
• → Burmese: ဂါဝန် (gawan)
• → Japanese: ガウン
• → Korean: 가운 (gaun)
• → Malay: gaun
• → Punjabi: ਗਾਊਨ (gāūna)
• → Welsh: gown

Translations

loose, flowing upper garment

• Albanian: petk (sq)
• Arabic: رِدَاء (ar) m (ridāʔ)
• Bulgarian: мантия (bg) f (mantija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長袍／长袍 (zh) (chángpáo), 罩衣 (zh) (zhàoyī)

• Finnish: kaapu (fi)
• French:

  Old French: goune

• German: Umhang (de) m, Umwurf m, Überwurf (de) m
• Hebrew: כֻּתֹּנֶת (he) f (kutónet)
• Hungarian: köntös (hu)
• Middle English: gowne
• Russian: наки́дка (ru) f (nakídka)
• Spanish: manto (es) m, capa (es) f
• Thai: เสื้อคลุม (sʉ̂ʉa-klum)

woman's dress

• Bashkir: күлдәк (küldək)
• Bulgarian: рокля (bg) f (roklja)
• Czech: šaty (cs) m pl
• Danish: kjole c, dragt c
• Dutch: japon (nl), kleed (nl) n
• French: robe (fr) f
• German: Kleid (de) n, Abendkleid (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: πέπλος m (péplos)

• Hungarian: estélyi (hu)
• Irish: gúna m
• Italian: tunica (it) f
• Latin: stola f, cyclas f
• Malay: gaun (ms)
• Maori: kāone
• Portuguese: vestido (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਗਾਊਨ m (gāūna)
• Russian: пла́тье (ru) n (plátʹje)
• Scottish Gaelic: gùn m
• Spanish: túnica (es), vestido (es) m
• Swahili: gauni (sw)
• Swedish: klänning (sv) c, dräkt (sv) c
• Thai: เสื้อคลุม (sʉ̂ʉa-klum)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: gwisg (cy) f, gown (cy) m, gowniau m pl

official robe

• Albanian: petk (sq)
• Bulgarian: тога (bg) f (toga)
• Czech: talár (cs) m
• Dutch: toga (nl) f
• French: toge (fr) f (general term, especially Roman Antiquity), robe (fr) f (magistrates & court lawyers)
• German: Robe (de) f, Talar (de) m
• Hungarian: talár (hu)
• Irish: gúna m
• Italian: toga (it) f
• Latin: abolla f
• Macedonian: тога f (toga)
• Middle English: gowne
• Portuguese: beca (pt) f
• Russian: ма́нтия (ru) f (mántija), пла́тье (ru) n (plátʹje)
• Spanish: toga (es) f, talar (es) m
• Swedish: kappa (sv) c
• Thai: เสื้อคลุม (sʉ̂ʉa-klum)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

dressing gown — see dressing gown

Verb

gown (third-person singular simple present gowns, present participle gowning, simple past and past participle gowned)

1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

Anagrams

• Wong, wong

Middle English

Noun

gown

1. Alternative form of gowne