noun
Meaning 1
A washable, easily removable cloth cover for pillows.
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
pillowcase
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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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɪləʊˌkeɪs/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɪləˌkeɪs/
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General-American: /ˈpɪloʊˌkeɪs/
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New-Zealand: /ˈpɘlɐʉˌkæes/
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New-Zealand: /ˈpɘlɘˌkæes/
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noun
Meaning 2
bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: case, slip, pillow slip
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bed linen
History
Etymology
From pillow + case.
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: balışüzü — sheet for covering a pillow
- Azerbaijani: yastıqüzü — sheet for covering a pillow
- Belarusian: навалачка (navalačka) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Bulgarian: калъфка (kalǎfka) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Catalan: coixinera — sheet for covering a pillow
- Chinese Cantonese: 枕頭套 /枕头套 (zam2 tau4 tou3) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Chinese Mandarin: 枕套 (zhěntào) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Chinese Mandarin: 枕頭套 /枕头套 (zhěntoutào) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Czech: povlak na polštář — sheet for covering a pillow
- Danish: pudebetræk — sheet for covering a pillow
- Danish: pudevår — sheet for covering a pillow
- Dutch: kussensloop — sheet for covering a pillow
- Esperanto: kapkusentego — sheet for covering a pillow
- Estonian: padjapüür — sheet for covering a pillow
- Finnish: tyynynpäällinen — sheet for covering a pillow
- Finnish: tyynyliina — sheet for covering a pillow
- French: taie d'oreiller — sheet for covering a pillow
- German: Kopfkissenbezug — sheet for covering a pillow
- Greek: μαξιλαροθήκη (maxilarothíki) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Hungarian: párnahuzat — sheet for covering a pillow
- Hunsrik: Koppziegh — sheet for covering a pillow
- Icelandic: koddaver — sheet for covering a pillow
- Ingrian: naulocka — sheet for covering a pillow
- Irish: clúdach piliúir — sheet for covering a pillow
- Italian: federa — sheet for covering a pillow
- Japanese: 枕カバー (makura kabā) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Kalmyk: дерин һадр (derin ğadr) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Korean: 베갯잇 (begaennit) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Ladino: froña — sheet for covering a pillow
- Lao: ປອກຫມອນ (pǭk mǭn) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Latvian: spilvena pārvalks — sheet for covering a pillow
- Latvian: spilvendrāna — sheet for covering a pillow
- Lithuanian: priegalvio užvalkalas — sheet for covering a pillow
- Luxembourgish: Kappzich — sheet for covering a pillow
- Mongolian: дэрний уут (dernii uut) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Mongolian: дэрний дугтуй (dernii dugtuj) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠷᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠤᠭᠤᠲᠠ (deren-ü uɣuta) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠷᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠳᠤᠭᠲᠤᠢ (deren-ü duɣtui) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Nepali: सिरानी-छोप्ने (sirānī-chopne) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Norman: ântchie — sheet for covering a pillow
- Norman: entchaeure — sheet for covering a pillow
- Norwegian Bokmål: putetrekk — sheet for covering a pillow
- Norwegian Bokmål: putevar — sheet for covering a pillow
- Norwegian Nynorsk: putetrekk — sheet for covering a pillow
- Norwegian Nynorsk: putevar — sheet for covering a pillow
- Pannonian Rusyn: заглавчина (zahlavčina) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Plautdietsch: Bia — sheet for covering a pillow
- Plautdietsch: Scheddinj — sheet for covering a pillow
- Polish: poszewka — sheet for covering a pillow
- Polish: powłoczka — sheet for covering a pillow
- Portuguese: fronha — sheet for covering a pillow
- Romanian: față de pernă — sheet for covering a pillow
- Russian: на́волочка (návoločka) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Spanish: funda (de almohada) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Swahili: foronya — sheet for covering a pillow
- Swedish: örngott — sheet for covering a pillow
- Swedish: kuddvar — sheet for covering a pillow
- Swedish: dynvar — sheet for covering a pillow
- Tagalog: punda — sheet for covering a pillow
- Thai: ปลอกหมอน (bplɔ̀ɔk-mɔ̌ɔn) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Tupinambá: akangupapuku aoba — sheet for covering a pillow
- Turkish: yastık kılıfı — sheet for covering a pillow
- Ukrainian: наволочка (navoločka) — sheet for covering a pillow
- Welsh: gorchudd gobennydd — sheet for covering a pillow
- Welsh: cas clustog — sheet for covering a pillow