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leisure wear

leisure wear

3.2
Comfortable casual clothes worn when relaxing or during free time
  • noun
  • /ˈliːʒər wɛr/
translation icon : ropa de ocio
  • She chose her favorite leisure wear to wear for a casual movie night with friends.

And then like then you come up and cut to you in your building wearing leisure wear for the world.

Examples

  • And then like then you come up and cut to you in your building wearing leisure wear for the world.

  • She was fashioning it after the leisure wear that is worn by the fine people and your, me and this.

  • On weekends, I love to relax at home in comfortable leisure wear like sweatpants and a cozy t-shirt.

  • During the summer, many people enjoy wearing leisure wear while they go for walks in the park.

Synonyms

loungewear
vsleisure wear
1 3.2

Comfortable casual clothes you wear to relax at home

is for informal comfortable clothing for relaxing in many settings

How Comfortable

sleepwear
2 1.1
loungewear
1 3.2
leisure wear
3.2
formalwear
3 3.6

Surface Forms

leisure wear singular
leisure wears plural

Morphology

leisure + wear

The meaning 'informal clothing for leisure' is directly and compositionally derived from 'leisure' (free time) + 'wear' (clothing), following a common English noun+noun compounding pattern. This logic is cross-linguistically transparent (e.g., equivalents like Spanish 'ropa de ocio' or French 'vêtements de loisirs') and would be readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both words.

Etymology

Leisure wear comes from the two words leisure ('free time') and wear ('clothes'). The image is changing into soft, loose clothes when you relax, so the phrase means 'comfortable clothing for relaxing or leisure activities'.