overcoat

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ coat.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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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[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘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.’

Derived terms

• Chicago overcoat
• concrete overcoat
• wooden overcoat

 

Related terms

• overshoes
• topcoat
• undercoat

Translations

garment

Arabic: مِعْطَف (ar) m (miʕṭaf) 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 (ja) (ōbākōto), 外套 (ja) (がいとう, gaitō) Kazakh: пальто (palto) Korean: 외투 (ko) (oetu) Kyrgyz: пальто (palto) 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)

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