overcoat

overcoat

English

Etymology

over- +‎ coat

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəkəʊt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvɚkoʊt/

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• Hyphenation: over‧coat

Noun

overcoat (plural overcoats)

1. A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 10, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess:

     ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

Related terms

• overshoes
• topcoat
• undercoat

Translations

garment

Arabic: مِعْطَف‎ (ar) m (miʿṭaf) Moroccan Arabic: كبوط‎ (kabbūṭ) Armenian: վերարկու (hy) (verarku), պալտո (hy) (palto) Azerbaijani: palto (az) Belarusian: паліто́ n (palitó) Bulgarian: балтон m (balton), палто́ (bg) n (paltó) Burmese: လောင်းကုတ်အင်္ကျီ (my) (laung:kut-angkyi) Catalan: abric (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 外套 (zh) (wàitào), 大衣 (zh) (dàyī) Czech: kabát (cs) m Danish: frakke n, overfrakke c Dutch: overjas (nl) f or m Esperanto: palto, (plimalpli genulonga kaj kun butonoj) surtuto Estonian: mantel (et) Finnish: päällystakki (fi), palttoo (fi) French: pardessus (fr) m, manteau (fr) m Galician: abrigo (gl) m, gabán m Georgian: პალტო (ṗalṭo) German: Mantel (de) Greek: πανωφόρι (el) n (panofóri), παλτό (el) n (paltó) Hindi: ओवरकोट (hi) m (ovarkoṭ), लबादा (hi) m (labādā) Hungarian: felöltő (hu) Icelandic: yfirhöfn (is) f Irish: cóta mór m, casóg mhór f Italian: soprabito (it) m, cappotto (it) m Japanese: オーバーコート (ōbākōto), 外套 (ja) (がいとう, gaitō) Kazakh: пальто (palto) Korean: 외투 (ko) (oetu) Kyrgyz: пальто (palʹto) Latvian: mētelis m Lithuanian: paltas m Macedonian: капут m (kaput) Middle English: surcote Mongolian: пальто (mn) (palʹto) Navajo: éétsoh Norman: grand' câsaque f, cache-mînséthe f Norwegian: Bokmål: frakk (no) m Persian: پالتو‎ (fa) (pâlto) Plautdietsch: Äwarock m Polish: płaszcz (pl) m, palto (pl) n Portuguese: sobretudo (pt) m Romanian: pardesiu (ro) n, palton (ro) n Russian: пальто́ (ru) n (palʹtó), шине́ль (ru) (šinɛ́lʹ) (military) Rwanda-Rundi: Kinyarwanda: ikote Scottish Gaelic: còta-mòr m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: огртач m Roman: ogrtač (sh) m Slovak: kabát m Slovene: plašč (sl) m Spanish: abrigo (es) m Swahili: dagla (sw) Swedish: kappa (sv) c, överrock (sv) c, ytterrock (sv) c Tagalog: gaban, hindaramit Tajik: палто (palto) Turkish: palto (tr) Ukrainian: пальто́ (uk) n (palʹtó) Uzbek: palʼto Vietnamese: áo măng tô, áo choàng (vi) Westrobothnian: rakk m

See also

• balmacaan
• raglan

Verb

overcoat (third-person singular simple present overcoats, present participle overcoating, simple past and past participle overcoated)

1. (transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.
   • 2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications (page 128)

     One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.

Anagrams

• evocator