Meaning

4 senses
  1. A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.

    Schottenrock, Kilt

    килтkilt, шотла́ндская ю́бкаšotlándskaja júbka

    кілтkilt

    a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland

  2. (historical)Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid

  3. A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wraparound, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also worn by boys in the 19th-century United States.

  4. A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.

Examples

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  1. Tom is wearing a kilt today.

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  2. Tom tried to get me to wear a kilt.

    ruТом пытался уговорить меня надеть килт.

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  3. Tom wears a kilt when he plays the bagpipes.

    ruТом надевает килт, когда играет на волынке.

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  4. Tom was wearing a kilt.

    ruТом был в килте.

    deTom trug einen Kilt.

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  5. Tom wasn't wearing a kilt.

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Translations

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Origin

From Middle English kilten (“to tuck up, gird”), apparently from North Germanic, ultimatel

From Middle English kilten (“to tuck up, gird”), apparently from North Germanic, ultimately from Old Norse kelta, kjalta (“skirt; lap”). Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kelt-, *kelþǭ, *kilþį̄ (“womb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“round body; child”). Cognate with Danish kilte (“to tuck”), Swedish kilta (“to swathe”). Related to English child.

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