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Clothes vs Suitcase - What's the difference?

clothes | suitcase |

As nouns the difference between clothes and suitcase

is that clothes is (plural only)  items of clothing; apparel while suitcase is large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

As verbs the difference between clothes and suitcase

is that clothes is (clothe) while suitcase is to trade using samples in a.

clothes

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • (obsolete) .
  • The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
  • * Prior
  • She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothes

    See also

    * clothing * gear * threads

    Etymology 2

    suitcase

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling
  • Verb

    (suitcas)
  • to trade using samples in a
  • Anagrams

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