- [countable, uncountable] a piece of thick woven material made of wool, etc., used to cover the floor of a room or stairs; the material used for carpets
- He spent the morning laying the new carpet.
- a bedroom carpet
- (British English) We have fitted carpets (= carpets from wall to wall) in our house.
- a roll of carpet
Extra Examples- I'm having the carpets fitted today.
- The cat curled up on the carpet.
- The grey vinyl floor gave way to carpet tiles.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep-pile
- lush
- plush
- …
- roll
- make
- weave
- fit
- …
- design
- runner
- tile
- …
- on a/the carpet
- [countable] carpet (of something) (literary) a thick layer of something on the ground
- a carpet of snow
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- thick
- lush
- …
- form
- carpet of
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a thick fabric used as a cover for a table or bed): from Old French carpite or medieval Latin carpita, from obsolete Italian carpita ‘woollen counterpane’, based on Latin carpere ‘pluck, pull to pieces’.
Idioms
See carpet in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary(be/get called) on the carpet
- (informal, especially North American English) called to see somebody in authority because you have done something wrong
- I got called on the carpet for being late.
sweep something under the carpet
(US English also sweep something under the rug)
- to try to stop people from finding out about something wrong, illegal, embarrassing, etc. that has happened or that you have done
- An earlier report, implicating the government, had been conveniently swept under the carpet.
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