Meaning of trousers | Babel Free

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1. An article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles or knees, and is divided into a separate part for each leg.
   plural, plural-only
2. Pants, trousers.
3. A pair of pants, especially when extending from waist to ankles.
4. Sometimes, trouser. a usu. loose-fitting outer garment for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions, usu. of full length.Also called pants. Compare slacks.
5. pants
6. an outer garment for the lower part of the body, covering each leg separately. He wore (a pair of) black trousers; She was dressed in trousers and a sweater. broek, langbroek بَنْطَلون панталон calça(s) kalhoty die Hose bukser παντελόνιpantalones püksid شلوار housut pantalonמכנסיים पतलून hlače nadrág celana buxur pantaloni スボン 바지 kelnės bikses seluar panjang broekbukser, beinklærspodnie شلوار،کمیس calça pan­taloni брюки nohavice hlače pantalone byxor กางเกง pantolon 褲子 штани پاجامہ quần 裤子
7. of trousers. a trouser-button; That dog has torn my trouser-leg. broek مُتَعَلِّق بالبَنْطَلون на панталон de/para calça kalhotový Hosen-... bukse- που ανήκει στο παντελόνι (ως α΄ συνθ.) de los pantalones püksi- شلوار... housun- de pantalon מכנס पतलून, पाजामा nogavica nadrág- celana buxna- (...) dei pantaloni スボンの－ 바지- kelnių bikšu- seluar panjang broek- bukse- od/u spodni کمیس de/para calça(s) de la pantalon брючныи; штанина nohavicový hlačen- pantalone byx- ส่วนของกางเกง pantolon ... 褲子的 та...
8. , pl. pantalones.
9. (Clothing & Fashion) a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs
10. wear the trousers informal Brit to have control, esp in a marriage. US equivalent: wear the pants
    informal
11. pl (esp Brit) (also pair of trousers) → Hose f; she was wearing trousers → sie hatte Hosen or eine Hose an; to wear the trousers (fig inf) → die Hosen anhaben (inf); to be caught with one’s trousers down (inf, lit: sexually) → in flagranti erwischt werden (inf); (fig) → überrumpelt werden; (= unprepared) → sich kalt erwischen lassen (inf)
    pl

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Examples

“The trousers need to be shortened.”

“It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.”

“The effect the apparition had on me was to make me start violently, and we all know what happens when you start violently while holding a full cup of tea. The contents of mine flew through the air and came to rest on the trousers of Aubrey Upjohn, MA, moistening them to no little extent. Indeed, it would scarcely be distorting the facts to say that he was now not so much wearing trousers as wearing tea. [...] "I see you have not changed since you were with me at Malvern House," he said in an extremely nasty voice, dabbing at the trousers with a handkerchief. [...] "Frightfully sorry," I said. "Too late to be sorry now. A new pair of trousers ruined. It is doubtful if anything can remove the stain of tea from white flannel."”

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