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pant

pant

24 1.0
A piece of clothing that covers the waist to the ankles and has two legs
  • noun
  • /pænt/
translation icon : pantalón
  • There are pockets all over the pant.
  • pant legs

There was no vest, no pants, no shirt, no nothing.

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Examples

  • I didn't know what it was until I looked down and I saw... this rather intimidating little spider crawling out of your pant leg.

  • Yeah, you lift up that right pant leg there.

  • >> The black pant and the top, I thought that that was quite nice.

  • That pant, it's got a red lining.

  • I want to make cargo pants look good on me so bad.

  • They were black dress pants, but they were Jean like.

  • I'm wearing green pants and the ankles fitting.

  • The bark scratches her fingers, and she tears a pant leg in her rush.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • My slacks were torn at the knee, the pant leg slick with blood.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • She wore a stylish pair of pants to the party that caught everyone's attention.

Synonyms

trousers
vspant
110 1.0

Clothes worn on the lower body with separate parts for each leg

is the same concept but noted as normally appearing in the plural
pair of trousers
vspant
  • UK
2 1.1

Clothes that cover your lower body from the waist to the ankles with separate legs

is the general term usually used in plural rather than singular

Compounds

11 1.2

The part of trousers that covers one leg

A pair of light brown trousers worn for casual or smart casual events

Surface Forms

pant singular
pants plural

Etymology

Pant for clothing comes from the longer word pantaloons, which was named after an Italian stage character called 'Pantalone'. The word was shortened to pants, so a pant can mean one part of a pair of pants.