- a piece of clothing worn over the front of the body, from the chest or the waist down, and tied around the waist. Aprons are worn over other clothes to keep them clean, for example when cooking. compare pinaforeTopics Clothes and Fashionb2
- (specialist) an area with a hard surface at an airport, where aircraft are turned around, loaded, etc.Topics Transport by airc2
- (also apron stage)(specialist) (in a theatre) the part of the stage that is in front of the curtain
Word OriginMiddle English naperon, from Old French, diminutive of nape, nappe ‘tablecloth’, from Latin mappa ‘napkin’. The n was lost by wrong division of a napron; compare with adder.
Idioms
See apron in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary(tied to) somebody’s apron strings
- (too much under) the influence and control of somebody
- The British prime minister is too apt to cling to Washington's apron strings.
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