Definitions for Cotton

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Cotton cot·ton

Spelling: [kot-n]

IPA: /ˈkɒt n/

Cotton is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in Cotton (cnoott).

Definitions for Cotton

noun

1. a soft, white, downy substance consisting of the hairs or fibers attached to the seeds of plants belonging to the genus Gossypium, of the mallow family, used in making fabrics, thread, wadding, etc.
2. the plant itself, having spreading branches and broad, lobed leaves.
3. such plants collectively as a cultivated crop.
4. cloth, thread, a garment, etc., of cotton.
5. any soft, downy substance resembling cotton, but growing on other plants.
6. John, 1584–1652, U.S. clergyman, colonist, and author (grandfather of Cotton Mather).

Verb phrases

1. cotton (on) to, Informal. to become fond of; begin to like. to approve of; agree with: to come to a full understanding of; grasp:

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to get on well together; agree.
2. Obsolete. to prosper or succeed.

Origin of Cotton

1250-1300; Middle English coton Old French Old Italian cotone Arabic qutun, variant of qutn

Examples for Cotton

May we suggest Friendly Fox, a crotched animal made from 100-percent cotton.

A spokesman for the cotton campaign confirmed to The Daily Beast that they had “not paid for or placed that ad.”

The Daily Beast did not provide this image to Buerck or the NRA but did so to the cotton campaign.

With a pop of color and fun print, this cotton pair is not at all stuffy.

The cotton was thrown overboard as fast as we could, and what the men could not start the seas did.

Two of us were going in company, each with a load of cotton.

There is no account of indigo, and the cultivation of cotton had not commenced.

We got to the latter port without accident, and took in a cargo of cotton.

Here I quarrelled with the captain about some cotton wick, and I threw up my situation.

In his victory speech Tuesday night, cotton declared, “The people of Arkansas have made their choice.”