Gown vs Robed - What's the difference?
gown | robed |
A loose, flowing upper garment.
A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
# The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
(by metonymy) The university community.
A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
Any sort of dress or garb.
The robe worn by a surgeon.
To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.
As verbs the difference between gown and robed
is that gown is to dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown while robed is past tense of robe.As a noun gown
is a loose, flowing upper garment.As an adjective robed is
wearing a robe.gown
English
Noun
(en noun)- In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.