Meaning

2 senses
  1. (literally)A decorative quilt made of pieces of cloth having diverse sizes, colors, and shapes, sewn together either to form a regular pattern or in a deliberately mismatched fashion without a pattern.

    Patchworkdecke

  2. (broadly, figuratively)Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure; something composed of seemingly random parts.

    Flickenteppich, Sammelsurium

More definitions
  • a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together

Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 2
decorative quilt:
disorganized structure:

Forms

plural: patchwork quilts
Singularpatchwork quilt
Pluralpatchwork quilts

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure or random composition:hodgepodgejumble
Close in meaning
  • a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together:patchwork

Word family

1 related words

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