glove

Meaning

Noun

1. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
2. A baseball mitt.
3. (figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.
4. (slang) A condom.
5. (with-definite-article) A challenge from one to another.

Verb

1. (transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
2. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.
3. To touch (a delivery) with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.

Synonyms

mitten

mitt

gauntlet

baseball mitt

baseball glove

boxing glove

🥊

boxing-glove

boxing gloves

handwear

gaunlet

bird’s foot

hand sleeve

fin

flipper

🐬

gloves

🧤

web

webbing

Translations

gant

Handschuh

guante

guanto

handschoen

γάντι

luva

guant

χειρόκτιο

eldiven

gant

want

قفاز

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡlʌv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: glove

Inherited from Old English: glōf

Cognate with Scots: gluve

Cognate with Icelandic: glófi

Cognate with Middle English: lofe

In summary

From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.

Sentences

A woman wearing a white glove peers over the crowd .