TRYING ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trying on mean? 

• TRYING ON (noun)
  The noun TRYING ON has 1 sense:

1. putting clothes on to see whether they fit

  Familiarity information: TRYING ON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRYING ON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Putting clothes on to see whether they fit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fitting; try-on; trying on

Hypernyms ("trying on" is a kind of...):

run; test; trial (the act of testing something)

 Context examples 

It's trying on a man, I know.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I suppose they have not done trying on yet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)