EVENINGWEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eveningwear mean? 

• EVENINGWEAR (noun)
  The noun EVENINGWEAR has 1 sense:

1. attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening

  Familiarity information: EVENINGWEAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENINGWEAR (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("eveningwear" 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 "eveningwear"):

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)

 Context examples 

Also, when participating in your festive events, you may need to buy new eveningwear, so keep track of what you are spending to make sure you don’t have sticker shock when the statement arrives.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)