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robe

noun
/ɹəʊb/UK/ɹoʊb/US

Etymology

From Middle English robe, roobe, from Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to tear, peel”). cognates and related terms Akin to Old High German roup (“booty”) (Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roubōn (“to rob, steal”) (Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English rēafian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave.

  1. derived from *Hrewp-✻ — “to tear, peel”
  2. derived from *raubō✻
  3. derived from *rouba✻
  4. derived from robe
  5. inherited from robe

Definitions

  1. A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.

    • Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furred gowns hide all.

  2. The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.

  3. A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.

    2. To clothe

      To clothe; to dress.

      • robed in glory

    3. To put on official vestments.

    4. A surname.

    5. A town and local government area (the District Council of Robe) on the Limestone Coast of…

      A town and local government area (the District Council of Robe) on the Limestone Coast of South Australia, named after Frederick Robe.

    6. An unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington, United States, named after a…

      An unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington, United States, named after a pioneer.

The neighborhood

Derived

bathrobe, bedrobe, buffalo robe, dayrobe, derobe, disrobe, enrobe, Holy Robe, laprobe, lap robe, long robe, nightrobe, overrobe, riding robe, riding-robe, robeclad, robe decollete, robeless, robelike, robemaker, robemaking, robe montante, touch someone's robe, touch the hem of someone's robe, underrobe, unrobe, berobed

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at robe. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01robe02bedroom03room04opportunity05profit06exchange07trading08trade09investment10vestment

A definitional loop anchored at robe. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at robe

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA