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collared

collared

2 3.6
Having a band of cloth or leather around the neck, for example on a shirt
  • adjective
  • /ˈkɑːlərd/
translation icon : con cuello
  • Eric would turn up in crushed velvet jackets and open-neck shirts, while we were all stiff-collared and club ties.
  • collared flycatcher
  • collared lemmings
  • populations of collared

He works in sales and wears collared shirts to work every morning for months on end.

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Examples

  • Guys in America think that wearing a polo collared Under Armour shirt constitutes smart dress.

  • Heikki turned to find herself face to face with a tall, unsmiling man in a high-collared, short-sleeved tunic and loosely woven trousers.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • - This is the only collared shirt I got, sorry.

  • I got my collared shirt on.

  • He had a collared shirt and a missing button.

  • He works in sales and wears collared shirts to work every morning for months on end.

  • They had a very strict dress code that was basically you have to wear dress shoes, khakis, a collared shirt.

  • The wind and rain whipped his sand-colored hair and drenched his white collared shirt.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Todd is dressed in a nice collared shirt and khaki pants.

  • Mr. Grierson's collared and ready for you, sir.

Compounds

A shirt with the top button undone at the neck

A large long-tailed lizard with two dark bands around its neck like a collar

A dark grey pig-like animal with a faint white neck band living in dry Mexico and the southern US

9.8

A small animal like a rabbit with short ears and no tail that lives on rocky slopes in Alaska

A small mouse-like Arctic animal with a ring of lighter fur around the neck

Surface Forms

collared positive

Morphology

collared = collar (transparent) = collar + ed

Meaning 'having a collar' follows directly from 'collar' + adjective-forming '-ed', which is easily derivable by learners.

Etymology

Collared comes from the Latin word collum, which means 'neck', and later became the English word collar, a band worn around the neck. So something collared has a band 'around the neck', like a shirt or a dog's collar.