clothes

Meanings

Noun

• Items of clothing; apparel.
• Plural of cloth.
• The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
• laundry (hung on a clothesline)

Verb

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clothe

Origin

• From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ, from Old English clāþas, plural of clāþ, equivalent to cloth + -s. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes, Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede.
• clothe + -s