a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for each leg
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trou•sers /ˈtraʊzɚz/USA pronunciation
n. [plural]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- ClothingSometimes, trouser. [countable] clothing for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions:a pair of trousers.Also called pants.
trou•sers
(trou′zərz),USA pronunciation n. (used with a pl. v.)
trou′ser•less, adj.
- ClothingSometimes, trouser. Also called pants. a usually loose-fitting outer garment for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions that reach typically to the ankle but sometimes to any of various other points from the upper leg down. Cf. Bermuda shorts, breeches, knickers (def. 1), short (def. 37a), slacks.
- Clothingpantalets.
- trouse (variant of trews) + (draw)ers 1585–95
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'trousers' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Capri pants
- Mao suit
- Nehru
- Oxford bags
- ao dai
- bag
- bags
- battledress
- bell-bottom
- bell-bottoms
- bicycle clip
- bloomer
- bloomers
- blue jeans
- boot-cut
- bottom
- braces
- brail
- breeches
- breechless
- breeks
- brogue
- calzone
- camel toe
- cargo pants
- carmagnole
- catch
- chaps
- charcoal grey
- charro
- chino
- chinos
- chuddies
- clam-diggers
- combat trousers
- cords
- corduroy
- crease
- crotch
- cuff
- culottes
- cutoff
- cutoffs
- daks
- debag
- denim
- depants
- drainpipes
- dress uniform
- duck