Bikini vs Swimsuit - What's the difference?

bikini | swimsuit |


As nouns the difference between bikini and swimsuit

is that bikini is a brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women while swimsuit is a tight-fitting garment worn for swimming, especially the one-piece garment worn by women and girls.

As a proper noun Bikini

is bikini atoll.

Other Comparisons: What's the difference?

bikini

English

(wikipedia bikini)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women.
  • * 1950 , "In the Swim", Time , 2 Oct 1950:
    • Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: " French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer. "

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Coordinate terms

    * monokini

    Derived terms

    * bikini bottom * bikini line * bikini wax * flagkini * mankini * monokini * tankini * trikini

    swimsuit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tight-fitting garment worn for swimming, especially the one-piece garment worn by women and girls.

    • Synonyms

    * bathers (Australia) * budgie smugglers (qualifier) * cossie (Australia) * swimmers (Australia) * swimming costume * swimming trunks (the male bottom that resembles shorts) * togs (Australia)

    See also

    * bikini * boardies * board shorts * monokini * neck-to-knee * skinny dipping * swimming shorts * swimming trunks * swimwear