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necktie

noun · 2 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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  • /ˈnɛk.taɪ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛktaɪ
  • CMU ARPABET: N EH1 K T AY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: tie[Appendix:Glossary

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: garment

2

noun

Meaning 2

neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he stood in front of the mirror tightening his necktie
  • he wore a vest and tie

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: tie

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: neckwear

Narrower terms: bolo tie, bolo, bola tie, bola, bow tie, bow-tie, bowtie, four-in-hand, old school tie, string tie, Windsor tie

History

Etymology

From neck + tie.

Across languages

Translations

165 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: das — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Afrikaans: strop — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Albanian: kravatë — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Albanian: kollare — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Amharic: ክራባት (kərabat) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Arabic: رِبَاط (ribāṭ) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Arabic: رَبْطَة الْعُنُق (rabṭat al-ʕunuq) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Arabic: رِبَاط الْعُنُق (ribāṭ al-ʕunuq) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Arabic: كَرَافَة (karāfa) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Arabic: كَرَافَتَة (karāfata) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Arabic: جرفتّه (garafatta) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Arabic: كرفتة (karafitta) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Arabic: كرفتة (karafitta, karavitta) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Arabic: گراڤات (grāvāt) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Aragonese: corvata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Armenian: փողկապ (pʻoġkap) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Asturian: corbata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Azerbaijani: بويون باغى (bōyūn-bāghi) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Azerbaijani: کالوستوک (kalûstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Azerbaijani: قراوات (kıravat) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Azerbaijani: qalstuk — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Azerbaijani: boyunbağı — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Azerbaijani: kravat — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Basque: korbata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Belarusian: га́льштук (hálʹštuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Belarusian: га́лстук (hálstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Bengali: নেকটাই (nekṭai) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Breton: kravatenn — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Bulgarian: вратовръ́зка (vratovrǎ́zka) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Bulgarian: връ́зка (vrǎ́zka) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Burmese: လည်စည်း (lanycany:) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Catalan: corbata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Cebuano: korbata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Chinese Cantonese: 領帶 /领带 — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Chinese Cantonese: 呔 (taai1) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Hakka Chinese: 領帶 /领带 (liang1 dai4) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Hakka Chinese: 拉西 (la2 xi1) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Chinese: 領帶 /领带 (zh-min-nan) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Chinese Mandarin: 領帶 /领带 (lǐngdài) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Czech: vázanka — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Czech: kravata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Danish: slips — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Dutch: stropdas — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Dutch: das — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Esperanto: kravato — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Estonian: lips — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Faroese: slips — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Finnish: solmio — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Finnish: kravatti — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • French: cravate — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Galician: gravata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Georgian: ჰალსტუხი (halsṭuxi) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Georgian: ყლინჯი (q̇linǯi) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • German: Krawatte — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • German: Schlips — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Greek: γραβάτα (graváta) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Greek: λαιμοδέτης (laimodétis) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Greenlandic: qilernerusaq — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Gujarati: નેકટાઈ (nekṭāī) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Haitian Creole: cravant — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Hebrew: עֲנִיבָה (anivá) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Hindi: नेकटाई (nekṭāī) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Hindi: टाई (ṭāī) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Hungarian: nyakkendő — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Hunsrik: Kravatt — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Icelandic: bindi — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Icelandic: slifsi — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Ido: kravato — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Indonesian: dasi — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Irish: carbhat — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Italian: cravatta — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Japanese: ネクタイ (nekutai) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Karelian: galstukku — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Kazakh: галстук (galstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Khmer: ក្រាវាត់ (kraavat) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Khmer: ក្រវាត់ក (krɑɑvat kɑɑ) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Khmer: ក្រវាត់ (krɑɑvat) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Korean: 넥타이 (nektai) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Korean: 갈쓰뚝 (galsseuttuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Central Kurdish: بۆینباغ (boyinbaẍ) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Northern Kurdish: boyinbax — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Northern Kurdish: kravat — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Northern Kurdish: rîbat — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Northern Kurdish: stubend — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Kyrgyz: галстук (galstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Lao: ກາລະວັດ (kā la wat) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Lao: ຜ້າມັດຄໍ (phā mat khǭ) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Latin: fōcāle — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Latin: fascia — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Latvian: kaklasaite — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Lingala: kalaváti — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Lingala: nkɛ́kɛ́lɛ́ — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Lithuanian: kaklaraištis — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Luxembourgish: Krawatt — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Macedonian: вратоврска (vratovrska) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Macedonian: крава́та (kraváta) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Malay: tai — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Malay: tali leher — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Maltese: ingravata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Māori: neketai — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Mauritian Creole: kravat — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Mongolian: зангиа (zangia) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Mongolian: галстук (galstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠩᠭᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (ǰangɣiy-a) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠯᠰᠲ᠋ᠤᠺ (ɣalstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Muna: dasi — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Nahuatl: quechquentli — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Navajo: zéédéeláhí — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Navajo: zéénáztʼiʼí — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Navajo: zéédéetʼiʼí — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Navajo: zénáztʼiʼí — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Norman: cravate — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Norwegian Bokmål: slips — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: slips — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Pashto: نکټايي (nekṭāyi) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Pashto: نېکټائي (nekṭāyi) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Dari: نیکْتَایِی (nēktāyī) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Iranian Persian: کِراوات (kerâvât) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Plautdietsch: Schlips — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Polish: krawat — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Portuguese: gravata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Romanian: cravată — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Russian: га́лстук (gálstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Scottish Gaelic: taidh — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Serbo-Croatian: крава̀та — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Serbo-Croatian: хр̀ватка — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Serbo-Croatian: kravàta — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Serbo-Croatian: hr̀vatka — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Sinhalese: ටයි එක (ṭayi eka) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Slovak: viazanka — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Slovak: kravata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Slovak: nákrčník — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Slovene: kravata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Somali: garawati — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Southern Altai: галстук (galstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Spanish: corbata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Sundanese: dasi — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Swahili: tai — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Swedish: slips — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Tagalog: kurbata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Tajik: галстук (galstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Thai: เนคไท (nék-tái) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Thai: ไท (tai) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Tigrinya: ክራባታ (kərabata) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Turkish: kravat — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Turkish: boyunbağı — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Ottoman Turkish: بویون باغی (bôyûn bâğı) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Ottoman Turkish: بیون باغی (boyûn bâğı) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Turkmen: galstuk — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Ukrainian: крава́тка (kravátka) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Ukrainian: га́лстук (hálstuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Urdu: نِک ٹائی (nik ṭāī) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Urdu: نِکْٹائی (nikṭāī) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Urdu: نیک ٹائی (nek ṭāī) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Urdu: نیکْٹائی (nekṭāī) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Urdu: ٹائی (ṭāī) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Uyghur: گالىستۇك (galistuk) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Uzbek: boʻyinbogʻ — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Uzbek: galstuk — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Venetan: croata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Vietnamese: cà vạt — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Waray-Waray: kurbata — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Welsh: tei — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Yiddish: קראַוואַט (kravat) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front
  • Yiddish: שניפּס (shnips) — strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front