greatcoat

English

Etymology

From great +‎ coat.

Pronunciation

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Noun

greatcoat (plural greatcoats)

1. A heavy overcoat.

   Synonyms: watchcoat, carrick

   Hypernyms: overcoat < coat < garment

   Hyponym: ulster

   • 1864 January, John Strang, Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters, and Oddities of the City, During the Past and Present Centuries‎^[1], page 337:

     The members quietly rose from the board and took their hats from the hat-pins, and the geggee took down his greatcoat, and, with the most satisfied air possible, buttoned it across his breast.

Derived terms

• greatcoated

Descendants

• → Irish: cóta mór (calque)
• → Manx: cooat mooar (calque)
• → Scottish Gaelic: còta-mòr (calque)

Translations

heavy overcoat

• Arabic: مِعْطَف سَمِيك m (miʕṭaf samīk)
• Bulgarian: балтон m (balton), шинел (bg) m (šinel)
• Dutch: (uniform)overjas m
• Finnish: päällystakki (fi), pitkä takki, ulsteri (fi), mantteli (fi)
• French: pardessus (fr) m, paletot (fr) m, capote (fr) f
• Galician: chaquetón m, gabán m, abrigo (gl) m
• German: Wintermantel (de) m
• Hungarian: nagykabát (hu)
• Irish: cóta mór m
• Italian: cappotto (it) m
• Kazakh: шинель (şinel)
• Kyrgyz: шинель (ky) (şinel)
• Plautdietsch: Äwarock m
• Polish: palto (pl) n, szynel m
• Portuguese: sobretudo (pt) m
• Russian: пальто́ (ru) n (palʹtó), шине́ль (ru) f (šinélʹ)
• Spanish: sobretodo (es) m, gabán (es) m, abrigo (es) m
• Turkish: palto (tr)