Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.

    He was wearing his formal attire.

    Anzug, Aufzug, Kleidung

    оде́ждаodéžda, фо́рма одеждыfórma odeždy, облаче́ниеoblačénije

  2. (countable, uncountable)The single horn of a goat, deer or stag.

More definitions
  • clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion

Examples

25 sentences
  1. A T-shirt isn't appropriate attire for a job interview.

    deEin T-Shirt ist keine angemessene Kleidung für ein Vorstellungsgespräch.

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  2. She is careless about her attire.

    ruЕй всё равно, как она одета.

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  3. Sami was dressed in cowboy attire.

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  4. He is careless about his attire.

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  5. Black shoes completed his formal attire.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one's dress or clothes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one's dress or clothes:

Origin

The verb is from Middle English atyren, atiren, from Old French atirier (“to equip”), from

The verb is from Middle English atyren, atiren, from Old French atirier (“to equip”), from a- + tire (“rank”), akin to German Zier (“ornament”) and Old Norse tírr (“glory, renown”).

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Forms

plural: attires
Singularattire
Pluralattires

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion:garbdress

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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