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Uniform Hat School Military Clothes Noun ˈjuːnɪfɔːm ˈjuːnɪfɔːrm

Word3 uniform
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /ˈjuːnɪfɔːm/ /ˈjuːnɪfɔːrm/
Example
  • the hat is part of the school uniform.
  • a military uniform
  • do you have to wear uniform?
  • he was dressed in the uniform of a royal navy officer.
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uniform

(noun)/ˈjuːnɪfɔːm/ /ˈjuːnɪfɔːrm/
  1. the special set of clothes worn by all members of an organization or a group at work, or by children at school
    • SEE ALSO dress uniform
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/dress-uniform
    • The hat is part of the school uniform.
    • a military uniform
    • Do you have to wear uniform?
    • He was dressed in the uniform of a Royal Navy officer.
    • soldiers in uniform
    • a police/nurse's uniform
    • an army uniform
    • a soldier out of uniform
    • the uniform of the Parachute Regiment
    • He quickly put on his uniform.

    Extra Examples

    • The limousine was driven by a chauffeur in uniform.
    • She was wearing the regulation uniform of tunic, hat and tie.
    • men and women who don military uniform to defend their country
    • A man in a uniform stopped us entering.
  2. the clothes worn by the members of a sports team when they are playing
    • a striped baseball uniform
    • the team’s away uniform (= that they use when playing games away from home)
  3. the type of clothes that a person or group usually wears
    • my standard teenage uniform of sweatshirt and jeans
    • the traditional banker’s uniform
    • They wore the standard uniform of the American office worker.

    Word Origin

    • mid 16th cent. (as an adjective): from French uniforme or Latin uniformis (see uni-, form). The current sense of the noun dates from the mid 18th cent.
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