Laundry vs Clothes - What's the difference?
laundry | clothes |
A laundering; a washing.
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
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The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
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As nouns the difference between laundry and clothes
is that laundry is a laundering; a washing while clothes is (plural only) items of clothing; apparel.As a verb clothes is
(clothe).laundry
English
(wikipedia laundry)Noun
(laundries)- You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
Derived terms
* dirty laundry * laundry basket * laundry chute * laundryless * laundry list * laundry mark * laundryman * laundrymat * laundrywomanclothes
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(head)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.}}
- She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .