diaper
Meaning of diaper
- a piece of towelling or other absorbent material wrapped round a baby's bottom and between its legs to absorb and retain urine and faeces; a nappy.
- a linen or cotton fabric woven in a repeating pattern of small diamonds.
- put a nappy on (a baby).
- decorate (a surface) with a repeating geometrical or floral pattern.
Middle English: from Old French diapre, from medieval Latin diasprum, from medieval Greek diaspros (adjective), from dia ‘across’ + aspros ‘white’. The term seems originally to have denoted a costly fabric, but after the 15th century it was used as in diaper (sense 2 of the noun); babies' nappies were originally made from pieces of this fabric, hence diaper (sense 1 of the noun) (late 16th century).
Information about diaper
- The plural form of diaper is: diapers.
- Languages in which diaper is used:
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Hyphenation of diaper
di-a-per
- It consists of 3 syllables and 6 chars.
- diaper is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
diaper synonyms
Meaning nappy:
Translation of diaper
Anagrams of diaper
depair, paired, pardie, Piedra, piedra, Rapide, rapide, repaid
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