stripes

Meaning of stripes

plural noun
  1. a long, narrow band or strip differing in colour or texture from the surface on either side of it.
    a pair of blue shorts with pink stripes
  2. a chevron sewn on to a uniform to denote military rank.
    he was wearing his old uniform without its sergeant's stripes
  3. a type or category.
    entrepreneurs of all stripes are joining in the offensive
verb, 3rd person present
  1. mark with stripes.
    her body was striped with bands of sunlight

late Middle English: perhaps a back-formation from striped, of Dutch or Low German origin; compare with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German strīpe .

Information about stripes

  • The singular form of stripes is: stripe.
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Hyphenation of stripes

stripes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • stripes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

stripes synonyms

Meaning chevron:

chevron, stripe

Meaning a long, narrow mark or band:

line

Meaning a stripe, line, or elongated area of a different colour, texture, or composition from its surroundings:

band

Meaning an act of undressing, especially in a striptease:

strip

Meaning a strip of leather or other material worn, typically round the waist, to support or hold in clothes or to carry weapons:

belt

Meaning a long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon:

bar

Meaning a broad strip or area of something:

swathe

Meaning a long, thin line or mark of a different substance or colour from its surroundings:

streak

Meaning a streak or stripe of a different colour in wood, marble, cheese, etc:

vein

Meaning a long, thin line or piece of something:

thread

Meaning a coloured patch of cloth on a uniform used as the distinguishing emblem of a regiment, formation, or country:

flash

Meaning a very large or fiercely burning fire:

blaze

Meaning a mark or set of marks:

marking

Meaning a linear mark, slight ridge, or groove on a surface, often one of a number of similar parallel features:

stria

Anagrams of stripes

esprits, persist, priests, sitreps, spriest, sprites, stirpes, tripses

Words that rhyme with stripes

lobipes, Principes, forcipes, praencipes, precipes, principes, recipes, Kneipes, kipes, clipes, illipes, ovalipes, pallipes, slipes, talipes, palmipes, guttersnipes, jacksnipes, snipes, Panpipes, bagpipes, blowpipes, cornpipes, downpipes, drainpipes, halfpipes, hawsepipes, hornpipes, hosepipes, liripipes, panpipes, pipes, pitchpipes, standpipes, stovepipes, tailpipes, toadpipes, wincopipes, windpipes, cassaripes, cripes, gripes, pinstripes, rareripes, ratheripes, rathripes, ripes, tripes, Fissipes, Tarsipes

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