blanket

Meaning

Noun

1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
2. A layer of anything.
3. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
4. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Adj

General; covering or encompassing everything.

Verb

1. To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
2. To traverse or complete thoroughly.
3. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
4. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
5. To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
6. Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

Synonyms

cover

quilt

coverlet

covering

robe

rug

mantle

carpet

cloth

cloak

shawl

shroud

wrapper

across-the-board

bedspread

bed covering

overlay

flag

broad

woollen cloth

panoptic

felt

clothe

shell

🐚

jacket

wide

smother

sheet

all-embracing

muffle

swag

cap

throw

extensive

coverage

veil

all-encompassing

hood

horsecloth

screen

coat

🧥

all-inclusive

spread

lid

duvet

encompassing

mask

😷

mat

napkin

nappy

obliterate

obscure

obstruct

occult

overgrow

overlap

overlapping

overlaying

overspread

padding

paste

pavement

rubber sheet

saddle blanket

shielding

sleeping bag

span

stall

stifle

strew

subdue

submerge

suppress

surfacing

swathing

sweeping

tissue

top

🔝

white out

underskirt

whiteout

wrap

bed cover

blank out

Catholic

cover over

drown out

integumentary

be covered with

shabrack

subcrust

contend over

warm cloth

coarse carpet

cloth covering

integumental

mound over

nominal head

bed course

bedding course

cushion coat

cushion course

woollen shawl

regrown region

regeneration zone

regeneration field

cushion ply

bedding cushion

mat base

absolute

covering overlay

ample

apron

arrant

baize

bark

bathe

bedding

bedroll

bed sheet

block out

bottle up

buffer

cake

🍰

canopy

case

casing

comprehensive

conceal

cope

cotton

counterpane

crust

curtain

decking

defray

diaper

disguise

drape

encase

enclose

engulf

enshroud

envelope

✉️

facing

flood

front

garment

global

grow over

incase

inclusive

large

layer

linen

lining

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈblæŋkɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: blanket

Cognate with French: blanchet

Cognate with Old English: blanca

Cognate with Old Norse: hvítill

In summary

From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin, likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old English blanca (“white horse”), Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”).
More at blank. Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).