a warm heavy coat worn over the outer clothes in cold weather
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
o•ver•coat /ˈoʊvɚˌkoʊt/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Clothinga coat worn over one's ordinary indoor clothing, as in cold weather.
o•ver•coat
(n. ō′vər kōt′;v. ō′vər kōt′, ō′vər kōt′),USA pronunciation n.
v.t.
Overcoat, The,
- Clothinga coat worn over the ordinary indoor clothing, as in cold weather.
- Also called overcoating. an added coating, as of paint, applied for protection.
v.t.
- to apply an additional coat of paint to (a surface).
- over- + coat 1795–1805
Overcoat, The,
- Literaturea short story (1842) by Gogol.
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'overcoat' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
British warm
- Inverness
- Newmarket
- Ulster
- balmacaan
- box coat
- car coat
- chesterfield
- coonskin
- dreadnought
- duffle coat
- greatcoat
- jemmy
- kuletuk
- long
- macfarlane
- otherwise
- over
- overcoating
- pea jacket
- petersham
- polo coat
- raglan
- ratty
- redingote
- regular
- short
- storm coat
- stout
- suburban
- surtout
- topcoat
- trench coat
- ulster
- undercoat
- vicuna