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carpet

noun · verb · 13 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.pɪt/
  • General-American: /ˈkɑɹ.pət/
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  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)pɪt
  • rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)pət
  • CMU ARPABET: K AA1 R P AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A wrought cover for tables.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A woman's pubic hair.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
  • The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
  • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ The town of Tompasobaru, a six-hour drive from Tangkoko, is known for the fragrant cloves that carpet the front yards of homes, drying on tarps in the sun. But in the town’s open market, the air hung heavy with the metallic smell of the butcher’s wares.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To reprimand.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: rug, carpeting

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: floor cover, floor covering, furnishing

Narrower terms: broadloom, Brussels carpet, drugget, flying carpet, hearthrug, Kurdistan, numdah, numdah rug, nammad, prayer rug, prayer mat, red carpet, runner, scatter rug, throw rug, shag rug, stair-carpet, Wilton, Wilton carpet

10

noun

Meaning 10

a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a carpet of flowers
  • the larvae of some moths spin a web that resembles a carpet

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: natural object

11

verb

Meaning 11

cover with a carpet

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • carpet the floors of the house

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cover

12

verb

Meaning 12

cover completely, as if with a carpet

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • flowers carpeted the meadows

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cover

13

verb

Meaning 13

form a carpet-like cover (over)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cover, spread over

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Armenian կապերտ (kapert) Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet)bor. Medieval Latin carpitader. Old French carpitebor. Middle English carpette English carpet From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita or Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet, “carpet, rug”), earlier կապերտ (kapert).

Across languages

Translations

221 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: tapyt — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ainu: ソカㇻペ (sokarpe) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Albanian: cergë — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Albanian: qilim — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Albanian: dramidhe — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Amharic: መንጣፍ (mänṭaf) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: سَجَّادَة (sajjāda) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: بِسَاط (bisāṭ) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: زُرْبِيّة (zurbiyya) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: زَرْبِيّة (zarbiyya) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: زِرْبِيّة (zirbiyya) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: فَرْش (farš) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: سجادة (segāda) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: سيادة (siyyāda) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: سِجَّادة (sijjāda) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: زربية (zarbiyya) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Arabic: سِجَّادة (sijjāde) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Armenian: գորգ (gorg) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Armenian: կարպետ (karpet) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Azerbaijani: xalça — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Azerbaijani: xalı — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Azerbaijani: fərş — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Bashkir: келәм (keləm) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Bashkir: балаҫ (balaś) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Basque: alfonbra — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Belarusian: кілі́м (kilím) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Belarusian: дыва́н (dyván) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Bengali: গালিচা (galica) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Bulgarian: кили́м (kilím) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Bulgarian: моке́т (mokét) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Burmese: ကော်ဇော (kaujau:) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Catalan: moqueta — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Catalan: catifa — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Chechen: куз (kuz) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏰᏍᏓᎥ (ayesdav) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Chinese Cantonese: 地毯 (dei6 taam2) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Chinese Cantonese: 地氈 /地毡 (dei6 zin1) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Chinese Mandarin: 地毯 (dìtǎn) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Chinese Mandarin: 地氈 /地毡 (dìzhān) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Coptic: ⲕⲟⲩⲫⲁⲧ (kouphat) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Cornish: leurlen — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Czech: koberec — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Danish: tæppe — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Dutch: tapijt — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Dutch: vloerkleed — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Esperanto: tapiŝo — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Estonian: vaip — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Finnish: matto — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • French: tapis — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • French: moquette — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Friulian: tapêt — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Galician: alfombra — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Georgian: ხალიჩა (xaliča) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Georgian: ნოხი (noxi) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Georgian: ორხო (orxo) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • German: Teppich — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • German: Teppichboden — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Greek: χαλί (chalí) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Greek: τάπητας (tápitas) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ancient Greek: τάπης (tápēs) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Haitian Creole: tapi — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Hebrew: שָׁטִיחַ (shatíakh) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Hebrew: מַרְבָד (marvád) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Hindi: गिलीम (gilīm) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Hindi: क़ाली (qālī) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Hindi: फ़र्श (farś) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Hindi: क़ालीन (qālīn) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Hindi: गलीचा (galīcā) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Hindi: ग़लीचा (ġalīcā) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Hungarian: szőnyeg — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Icelandic: teppi — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ido: mato — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ido: tapiso — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Indonesian: karpet — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ingrian: maakangas — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ingush: кӏувс (kʼuvs) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Irish: cairpéad — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Italian: tappeto — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Italian: moquette — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Japanese: 絨毯 (jūtan) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Japanese: カーペット (kāpetto) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Kaitag: халча́ (ꭓalčá) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Kaitag: тӏамса́ (ṭamsá) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Kaitag: чӏянкӏа́ (č̣ənḳá) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Kaitag: сума́гъ (sumáɣ) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Kalmyk: кевс (kevs) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Kannada: ರತ್ನಗಂಬಳಿ (ratnagambaḷi) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Kazakh: кілем (kılem) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Khmer: និសីទន (nisəytĕəʼnĕəʼ) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Khmer: កំរាល (kɑmraal) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Korean: 양탄자 (yangtanja) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Korean: 융단 (yungdan) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Korean: 카펫 (kapet) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Central Kurdish: فەرش (ferş) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Northern Kurdish: ferş — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Northern Kurdish: kilîm — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Northern Kurdish: xalîçe — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Kyrgyz: килем (kilem) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Lao: ພົມ (phom) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Latgalian: pokluotive — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Latin: tapēs — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Latin: strāgulum — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Latvian: paklājs — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Limburgish: kerpèt — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Lithuanian: kilimas — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Macedonian: тепих (tepih) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Macedonian: ќилим (ḱilim) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Malagasy: karipetra — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Malagasy: lafike — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Malay: permaidani — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Maltese: tapit — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Māori: whāriki — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Māori: kāpeti — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Mongolian: хивс (xivs) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Mongolian: дороож (doroož) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠪᠢᠰ (kebis) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Navajo: diyogí — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Norman: tapis — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Norwegian Bokmål: teppe — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Occitan: tapís — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Occitan: moqueta — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Old English: brǽdels — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ossetian: гауыз (gawyz) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Pashto: غالۍ (ǧālᶕy) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Iranian Persian: قالی (ġâli) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Iranian Persian: فَرْش (farš) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Iranian Persian: موکِت (moket) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Iranian Persian: قالین (ġâlin) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Iranian Persian: قالیچِه (ġâliče) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Plautdietsch: Teppich — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Polish: dywan — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Polish: kobierzec — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Portuguese: carpete — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Portuguese: tapete — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Portuguese: alcatifa — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Punjabi: ਕਾਰਪੇਟ (kārpeṭ) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Quechua: mast'a — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Romanian: covor — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Russian: ковёр (kovjór) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Scottish Gaelic: brat-ùrlair — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Scottish Gaelic: tapais — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: тѐпих — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: ћѝлим — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: tèpih — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: ćìlim — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Sindhi: قالين (qālẽ) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Sinhalese: කාපට් (kāpaṭ) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Slovak: koberec — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Slovene: preproga — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Spanish: alfombra — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Spanish: moqueta — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Swahili: zulia — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Swedish: matta — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tagalog: alpombra — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tajik: гилем (gilem) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tajik: қолин (qolin) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tajik: фарш (farš) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tamil: கம்பளம் (kampaḷam) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Taos: hálgoną — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tarifit: ajartir — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tarifit: tajartitš — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tat: həlou (pileless) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tatar: келәм (keläm) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Thai: พรม (prom) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tibetan: གདན (gdan) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tibetan: བཞུགས་གདན (bzhugs gdan) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tibetan: རུམ (rum) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tibetan: གྲུམ་རྩེ (grum rtse) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tibetan: ཁ་གདན (kha gdan) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Tigrinya: ምንጻፍ (mənṣaf) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Turkish: halı — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Turkish: kilim — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ottoman Turkish: خالی (halı) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ottoman Turkish: كلیم (kilim) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Turkmen: haly — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ukrainian: ки́лим (kýlym) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Ukrainian: дива́н (dyván) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Urdu: گَلِیم (galīm) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Urdu: فَرْش (farś) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Urdu: قالِین (qālīn) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Urdu: بِساط (bisāt) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Urdu: غَلِیچَہ (ġalīca) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Urdu: قالی (qālī) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Urdu: غالِیچَہ (ġālīca) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Urdu: قالِیچَہ (qālīca) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Uyghur: گىلەم (gilem) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Uzbek: gilam — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Vietnamese: thảm — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Welsh: carped — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Welsh: carpedi — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Yiddish: טעפּיך (tepikh) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Zazaki: cıl (diq) — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Zulu: ikhaphethe — a fabric used as a floor covering
  • Dutch: tapijt — any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function
  • Greek: στρώμα (stróma) — any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function
  • Greek: τάπητας (tápitas) — any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function
  • Ido: tapiso — any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function
  • Russian: ковёр (kovjór) — any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function
  • Swedish: matta — any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function
  • Welsh: carped — any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function
  • Welsh: gorchudd — any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function
  • Welsh: trwch — any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function
  • Bulgarian: застилам (zastilam) — to lay carpet
  • Dutch: tapijt leggen — to lay carpet
  • Dutch: vloerkleed leggen — to lay carpet
  • French: tapisser — to lay carpet
  • German: mit Teppichboden auslegen — to lay carpet
  • Icelandic: teppaleggja — to lay carpet
  • Central Kurdish: فەرش راخِستِن (ferş raxistin) — to lay carpet
  • Persian: فرش کردن (farš kardan) — to lay carpet
  • Spanish: alfombrar — to lay carpet
  • Ottoman Turkish: دوشهمك (döşemek) — to lay carpet
  • Welsh: carpedu — to lay carpet
  • Dutch: een tapijt vormen — to cover like a carpet
  • Dutch: bedekken — to cover like a carpet
  • French: tapisser — to cover like a carpet
  • German: bedecken — to cover like a carpet
  • Italian: coprire — to cover like a carpet
  • Māori: whāriki — to cover like a carpet
  • Spanish: cubrir — to cover like a carpet
  • Spanish: alfombrar — to cover like a carpet
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