sweater
English
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A man’s sweater.
Etymology
From Middle English swetere, equivalent to sweat + -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈswɛtə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈswɛtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/
Audio (GA) (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈswetə/
- Rhymes: -ɛtə, -ɛtə(r), -ɛtə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: sweat‧er
Noun
sweater (plural sweaters)
- A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
- (US) A similar garment worn for warmth.
- One who sweats (produces sweat).
- 2007, John T. James, A Sea of Broken Hearts: Patient Rights in a Dangerous Profit-Driven Health Care System, →ISBN, page 29:
- The cardiologist who administered Alex's exercise stress test on August 21 observed during that test that Alex was a profuse sweater.
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- One who or that which causes to sweat.
- 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 3
- We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.
- 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 3
- A diaphoretic remedy.
- (archaic) One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
- (Britain, obsolete) A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded weak passengers with his sword-point.
Synonyms
Translations
knitted jacket worn by athletes before or after exercise
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similar garment worn for warmth
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a person who sweats
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