PANTYHOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pantyhose mean? 

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

1. a woman's tights consisting of underpants and stockings

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANTYHOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman's tights consisting of underpants and stockings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pantyhose" is a kind of...):

leotards; tights (skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls)

Meronyms (parts of "pantyhose"):

stocking (close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural))

underpants (an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin)