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Definition of blanket noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

blanket

noun
 
 
/ˈblæŋkɪt/
 
/ˈblæŋkɪt/
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  1.  
    a large cover, often made of wool, used especially on beds to keep people warm
    • It’s cold tonight—can I have another blanket?
    • The baby was wrapped in a blanket.
    see also electric blanket
    Extra Examples
    • She pulled the blanket up and went to sleep.
    • They shivered under their thin blankets.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • heavy
    • thick
    • thin
    • …
    verb + blanket
    • cover somebody with
    • drape over somebody/​something
    • tuck around somebody
    • …
    preposition
    • beneath a/​the blanket
    • under a/​the blanket
    phrases
    • a wet blanket
    See full entry
  2.  
    [usually singular] blanket of something a thick layer or mass of something
    • a blanket of fog/snow/cloud
    • (figurative) The trial was conducted under a blanket of secrecy.
    Extra Examples
    • The sun was breaking through the blanket of mist.
    • The walls were covered in blankets of ivy.
    see also pigs in blankets, wet blanketTopics Weatherc1
    3. Word OriginMiddle English (denoting undyed woollen cloth): via Old Northern French from Old French blanc ‘white’, ultimately of Germanic origin.
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