noun
Meaning 1
A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dressmaker
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈdɹɛsˌmeɪkɚ/
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noun
Meaning 2
someone who makes or mends dresses
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: garmentmaker, garment-worker, garment worker
Narrower terms: Ross, Betsy Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross
History
Etymology
From dress + maker.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: خَيَّاطَة (ḵayyāṭa) — person who makes women's clothes
- Bengali: দর্জি (dorji) — person who makes women's clothes
- Bulgarian: шивачка (šivačka) — person who makes women's clothes
- Chinese Mandarin: 女裝裁縫師 /女装裁缝师 (nǚzhuāng cáiféngshī) — person who makes women's clothes
- Danish: syerske — person who makes women's clothes
- Estonian: õmbleja — person who makes women's clothes
- Finnish: ompelija — person who makes women's clothes
- French: couturière — person who makes women's clothes
- Georgian: მკერავი (mḳeravi) — person who makes women's clothes
- Georgian: თერძი (terʒi) — person who makes women's clothes
- German: Damenschneider — person who makes women's clothes
- German: Damenschneiderin — person who makes women's clothes
- Hindi: ललित (lalit) — person who makes women's clothes
- Irish: gúnadóir — person who makes women's clothes
- Irish: maintín — person who makes women's clothes
- Italian: sarta — person who makes women's clothes
- Japanese: 仕立て屋 (shitateya) — person who makes women's clothes
- Japanese: ドレスメーカー (doresumēkā) — person who makes women's clothes
- Korean: 양장점 (yangjangjeon) — person who makes women's clothes
- Norman: couôtuthiéthe — person who makes women's clothes
- Norman: couôtuthyi — person who makes women's clothes
- Polish: krawiec — person who makes women's clothes
- Polish: krawcowa — person who makes women's clothes
- Polish: krawczyni — person who makes women's clothes
- Portuguese: costureira — person who makes women's clothes
- Romanian: croitor — person who makes women's clothes
- Romanian: croitoreasă — person who makes women's clothes
- Russian: портни́ха (portníxa) — person who makes women's clothes
- Russian: моди́стка (modístka) — person who makes women's clothes
- Spanish: modista — person who makes women's clothes
- Swedish: sömmerska — person who makes women's clothes
- Vilamovian: šnajder — person who makes women's clothes
- Vilamovian: śnajder — person who makes women's clothes