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

underwear

noun
 
/ˈʌndəweə(r)/
 
/ˈʌndərwer/
[uncountable]
(also formal underclothes, underclothing)
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  1. clothes that you wear under other clothes and next to the skin
    • I never wear underwear.
    • clean/thermal underwear
    • She packed one change of underwear.
    • Some mothers can't even afford to buy underwear for their kids.
    • in your underwear He was getting cold standing around in his underwear.
    Topics Clothes and Fashionb1
    Extra Examples
    • He stripped to his underwear and dived into the water.
    • men's/​women's underwear
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • long
    • skimpy
    • thong
    … of underwear
    • change
    • set
    • pair
    preposition
    • in your underwear
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See underwear in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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