cloth

Meaning

A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
Appearance; seeming.
A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
Priesthood, clergy.

fabric

piece of cloth

article of clothing

soft goods

body covering

spider’s web

woven fabric

dry-goods

wrapping cloth

hemp cloth

dress material

clothing fabric

coarse cloth

made of cloth

print cotton

piecegoods

woven material

woven with gold

Cheviot

measuring line

become rags

cloath

abiliment

dish cloth

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klɒθ/

From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (“garment”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”) (compare Albanian ngjit (“to stick, attach, glue”)), a form of *gleh₁y- (“to smear; to stick”). Cognate with Scots clath (“cloth”), North Frisian klaid (“dress, garment”), Saterland Frisian Klood (“dress, apparel”), West Frisian kleed (“cloth, article of clothing”), Dutch kleed (“robe, dress”), Low German kleed (“dress, garment”), German Kleid (“gown, dress”), Danish klæde (“cloth, dress”), Norwegian klede, Swedish kläde (“cloth”), Icelandic klæði (“cloth, dressing”), Old English clīþan (“to adhere, stick”).