Definitions for Tailor

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Tailor tai·lor

Spelling: [tey-ler]

IPA: /ˈteɪ lər/

Tailor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in Tailor (ailort).

Definitions for Tailor

noun

1. a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
2. a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.

verb (used with object)

1. to make by tailor's work.
2. to fashion or adapt to a particular taste, purpose, need, etc.:
3. to fit or furnish with clothing.
4. Chiefly U.S. Military. to make (a uniform) to order; cut (a ready-made uniform) so as to cause to fit more snugly; taper.

verb (used without object)

1. to do the work of a tailor.

Origin of Tailor

1250-1300; Middle English (noun) Anglo-French tailour, Old French tailleor, equivalent to taill(ier) to cut (Late Latin tāliāre, derivative of Latin tālea a cutting, literally, heel-piece; se

Examples for Tailor

I also love to go to the market, mostly to buy fabrics which I then take to my tailor.

Yea, like a woman, who deems a man safest when he is a tailor, or a perfumer.

He has the soul of a merchant tailor, actually, but not the tailor's manhood.

One minute the script, the next a story about Ivor Novello's tailor or the Tahiti steamer schedule in the Thirties.

A suit of this kind should be as irreproachable in fit and finish as a tailor can make it.

We should think about mental health more like how we tailor physical training routines.

He had been a tailor in his time, and had kept a phaeton, he said.

Hart Schaffner and Marx had not yet become rural America's tailor.

He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.

He had a tailor who ran up dozens of the same suit in different sizes to account for slight variations in his weight.