Definition of gown in English:

gown

noun ɡaʊnɡaʊn

1A long elegant dress worn on formal occasions.
a silk ball gown
一件丝绸的舞会袍。
Example sentencesExamples
- The model stood wearing a beautiful white wedding gown with lots of pretty jewelry.
- Roman watched as his mother emerged from her room, dressed in her ball gown and sparkling in rubies.
- The gowns were grand and formal, but still utterly feminine.
- I walked slowly, observing the fancy ball gowns and simple wool dresses.
- All around there were hundreds of dresses and gowns for all occasions hanging upon the walls.
- She was very pretty in an elegant gown, clutching a bouquet of pink tulips.
- I slipped into a scarlet red gown and some black platforms.
- Many cruises still offer one or more optional formal dinners where ladies where long formal gowns or other evening dresses and gentlemen wear tuxedos or dark suits.
- When one goes to great effort and expense for that perfect gown, no one wants to see it on someone else.
- Juliana was wearing a pink low-necked gown with puffed sleeves.
- They walked to the very end of the manor, and entered a huge hall filled with lords and ladies, all dressed splendidly in flowing gowns and silk suits, embroidered with golden designs.
- I was walking faster and faster down the aisle when I realized I was standing on the train of my aunt's bridal gown.
- They dressed in their finest gowns of silk and satin, jewels of gold, elegant shoes and shawls.
- Everyone was dressed in luxurious gowns and tuxes.
- She looked absolutely lovely in her elegant gown of pale yellow, which brought out the golden highlights in her long hair.
- The bridesmaids ran around in their delightfully elegant pastel pink organza gowns.
- Another woman there had been a lifelong seamstress who made elegant gowns.
- We are renewing our vows a week before in Las Vegas and the one thing I would really love is an original wedding gown.
- Only a handful of people were actually dressed up in gowns and tuxedos.
- Suzanne has designed, cut and sewn the most individual, creative and elegant gowns worn by celebrities for the past 20 years.
Synonyms
dress, frock, shift, robe
garment, costume
1. 1.1 A dressing gown.
  晨衣
  Example sentencesExamples
  Down in Santa's bedroom his nightcap and gown hangs on the end of the bed.
  Dressing gowns of various designs were popular and slippers of all shapes and sizes kept the toes warm.
  The next morning, I changed into a fresh gown from the wardrobe and went into the bathroom to give myself a quick brushing and washing up.
  Her hair was pinned in yesterday's curlers and her bathrobe hung limply around her, like a dirty gown.
2. 1.2 A protective garment worn in hospital, either by a staff member during surgery or by a patient.
  （手术中医护人员或病人穿的）罩衣，防护服
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was also greeted with the sight of an elderly male patient, clad only in carpet slippers and a very badly fastened theatre gown, clutching his fag in one hand and his mobile drip stand in the other.
  I walked into the restroom and changed from the hospital gown into my normal clothes.
  The nurse or the assistant measures and documents the patient's vital signs and instructs the patient to change into a hospital gown.
  Before the surgery, you may be asked to wear a hospital gown.
  Once she's changed into the hospital gown and settled in the bed, we're allowed to sit with her until it's time for the operation.
  In addition to equipment, assess the need for and obtain any special supplies, such as extra wound care dressings and special-sized gowns.
  When I got out side in my hospital gown it was freezing cold.
  We prefer that you wear the hospital's gowns during the first two three days after surgery, as these open in the back, allowing us to change the bandages on your back.
  After changing into a hospital gown, the patient lies on a cart or bed and covers his or her hair with a cap.
  Attendants must use masks, gloves, disposable gowns and eye protection.
  The doctor looked up from the child on the bed, now clothed in a hospital gown with an ID bracelet around her wrist.
  Extra-large patient gowns and blood pressure cuffs require a small investment by the hospital and should be stocked routinely.
  He or she gives the patient a hospital gown and sees that all clothing and jewelry is given to a family member or sent to a service center for safekeeping.
  I watched him leave and stripped out of the stupid white gowns they give in hospitals that leave you half naked at the back.
  A nurse helped me get changed into a hospital gown, and get into the bed.
  You will be in a hospital gown as zippers and snap fasteners can interfere with the scan.
  On a recent visit, in the hallway outside an M.R.I. room, a patient milled around in a light blue paper gown.
  You may be asked to change into a hospital gown for the test.
  You will then be asked to remove all your clothes and put on a loose gown that ties at the back of your body.
  Cecil had been stripped, washed and put into a hospital gown.
3. 1.3 A loose cloak indicating one's profession or status, worn by a lawyer, teacher, academic, or university student.
  （律师、教师、学者或大学生穿戴的，代表职业或地位的）宽松长袍，宽大外衣
  Example sentencesExamples
  The gown turned out to be an academic gown, not a legal one.
  The judge Mr Justice Hooper and lawyers have dispensed with their wigs and gowns for the trial which is expected to last three months.
  On one hand, the magnificent building, evocative organ music, and procession of staff and students in their gowns gave the ceremony a certain meaning and significance.
  Just as importantly, a jury forms a reassuring lay tribunal between the polished professionals in their gowns and wigs and the common man or woman.
  A large crowd of proud family members and friends turned up to see the children, dressed in gowns and mortar boards, received their certificates of Achievement the afternoon ceremony.
  The teachers wore their academic gowns at all times and went swishing along the corridors between classes.
  The unusual tag on the back of lawyers' gowns is an atrophied remnant of a pouch for food - a sort of legal culinary appendix.
  Only the scholar's gown suggested the high academic ability which was to bring her great distinction.
  The priest rose, straightening his filthy gown.
  There was another picture of Frank in his uniform and one of Evelyn in her cap and gown from high school.
  He was capped and dressed in a long gown, red shoes, and a red silk sash with a silk ball on his chest.
  And, to ensure equitable treatment of both pupils and staff, teachers should surely be banned from wearing hoods on their academic gowns on speech day.
  We lived in Graduate College and we ate together, particularly dinner at Procter Hall where academic gowns were required attire.
  They will all don caps and gowns for the ceremonies in the Great Hall of the University's Richmond Building.
  In his navy blue graduation gown he looked so wise that I had to smile when I looked up at him from my seat.
  Although the wearing of academic dress was not compulsory, many senior university figures turned up with their scholars' gowns flowing and mortarboards on their heads.
  Now, do you remember your graduation, walking down the aisle, wearing your cap and gown?
  I bumped into some of my friends at Uni whilst collecting my gown and that helped me relax, which was necessary.
  I've a formal dinner on Wednesday requiring black tie and academic gown.
  The caps, gowns, and diplomas may look the same, but the groves of academe have changed radically over the past quarter century.
4. 1.4mass noun The members of a university as distinct from the permanent residents of the university town.
  （区别于大学城永久居民的）大学师生
  Often contrasted with town
  Example sentencesExamples
  Seeking to apply his theories, Geddes decided that town and gown in Edinburgh lived too far apart, so pioneered a plan to bring them together.
  In both Oxford and Cambridge, gown dominates the town.
  It has taken this further with its detailed submission as to how a campus at York Central would be good for town and gown.
  But controversial plans to erect wind turbines across St Andrews have reignited the animosity between town and gown.
  The result is a city formed by the very rich and the very poor - and nowhere is the gap between town and gown more profound.
  The new student union president has set a target of creating town and gown harmony and is keen to work closely with council.
  It is often said that town and gown, city and university, are indeed far away from each other, despite their proximity on the crow-flying map of York.

verb ɡaʊnɡaʊn

be gowned

1Be dressed in a gown.
晨衣
she was gowned in luminous silk
她穿着绚丽的丝绸长袍。
Example sentencesExamples
- For formal events the guys must be in a black suit or tux, the women must be gowned.
- Please, take this young woman and see that she is bathed in the finest perfume, and gowned, jeweled, and crowned.
- After everyone had already been seated, including the king, I walked slowly, gracefully into the grand hall, gowned brilliantly in gold cloth.
- Today, she was still gowned in white, much like Amelea, but this dress's collar went up to her chin.
- I came to court this morning on a civil matter that would not require me to be gowned.
- Through the crowd I could see a small, gowned body making its way toward us.
- Bligh and Madeleine watched for a while, then as the crowd thinned they approached a gowned priest and asked him what was happening.
- The faculty was splendid in their academic regalia, students all gowned with their mortar and tassel led by a marshal carrying the college's mace.
- In a colourful ceremony the scholars, who were robed and gowned in full academic dress, were presented with their award by the president in front of the deans, doctors and dons of the college.
1. 1.1gown upno object Put on a surgical gown.
  the lab is supposed to be sterile, so you have to gown up
  Example sentencesExamples
  The neurosurgeon scrubbed and gowned, and the surgery began.
  The sonographer scrubs and is gowned and gloved for the procedure.
  Then I was introduced to the surgeon who, suitably gowned and gloved, was there in case of cardiac arrest.
  Observe and practice perioperative procedures to use in your everyday practice, including hand hygiene, gowning, gloving, and skin preparation.
  He was in some sort of operating room, surrounded by masked and gowned men and women in blue surgical gear.
  The 65-year-old, who is pictured right, was gowned up and set to be taken to the operating theatre to have the surgery when doctors called a halt.
  The other videotape included a demonstration of the department's procedure for surgical scrubbing, proper gowning, self-gloving using a closed glove technique, and gowning and gloving another person.
  Only a gowned and gloved person should help another person don a sterile gown and gloves, place sterile drapes, or prepare the sterile field.
  I have been taught that if you are not gowned and gloved, you cannot touch something that is sterile.
  She claimed her daughter was not properly checked and gowned before being given the anaesthetic.
  Quickly thanking the nurse, the couple gowned up and hurried to their daughter's room to find her sitting up and waiting for them.
  Plastic surgeon Michael Kelly is masked and gowned, his male patient sedated.
  Volunteers also work as hospital guides, or on out-patient departments, meeting patients, helping them get gowned up for an X-ray and offering them a cup of tea.
  Kristyn and her parents had walked a little further ahead and were gowning up.
  In the laboratory setting, participants practice the skills discussed in the classroom, including scrubbing, gowning, gloving, positioning, and prepping.
  How many times in med school did I contaminated myself and had to re-scrub and gown?
  The scrub student gowned and gloved, set up sterile fields, draped patients, and assisted with surgery.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French goune, from late Latin gunna 'fur garment'; probably related to Byzantine Greek gouna 'fur, fur-lined garment'.

Old French goune is the source of gown, from late Latin gunna ‘fur garment’.

Rhymes

brown, Browne, clown, crown, down, downtown, drown, frown, low-down, noun, renown, run-down, town, upside-down, uptown

Definition of gown in US English:

gown

nounɡounɡaʊn

1A long dress, typically having a close-fitting bodice and a flared or flowing skirt, worn on formal occasions.
（尤指正式场合穿着的有紧身胸衣和舒展长裙的）长礼服；裙服
a silk ball gown
一件丝绸的舞会袍。
Example sentencesExamples
- Everyone was dressed in luxurious gowns and tuxes.
- Only a handful of people were actually dressed up in gowns and tuxedos.
- Juliana was wearing a pink low-necked gown with puffed sleeves.
- Suzanne has designed, cut and sewn the most individual, creative and elegant gowns worn by celebrities for the past 20 years.
- I was walking faster and faster down the aisle when I realized I was standing on the train of my aunt's bridal gown.
- I slipped into a scarlet red gown and some black platforms.
- She looked absolutely lovely in her elegant gown of pale yellow, which brought out the golden highlights in her long hair.
- The gowns were grand and formal, but still utterly feminine.
- All around there were hundreds of dresses and gowns for all occasions hanging upon the walls.
- Roman watched as his mother emerged from her room, dressed in her ball gown and sparkling in rubies.
- Another woman there had been a lifelong seamstress who made elegant gowns.
- The model stood wearing a beautiful white wedding gown with lots of pretty jewelry.
- They walked to the very end of the manor, and entered a huge hall filled with lords and ladies, all dressed splendidly in flowing gowns and silk suits, embroidered with golden designs.
- She was very pretty in an elegant gown, clutching a bouquet of pink tulips.
- They dressed in their finest gowns of silk and satin, jewels of gold, elegant shoes and shawls.
- When one goes to great effort and expense for that perfect gown, no one wants to see it on someone else.
- I walked slowly, observing the fancy ball gowns and simple wool dresses.
- We are renewing our vows a week before in Las Vegas and the one thing I would really love is an original wedding gown.
- The bridesmaids ran around in their delightfully elegant pastel pink organza gowns.
- Many cruises still offer one or more optional formal dinners where ladies where long formal gowns or other evening dresses and gentlemen wear tuxedos or dark suits.
Synonyms
dress, frock, shift, robe
1. 1.1 A dressing gown.
  晨衣
  Example sentencesExamples
  The next morning, I changed into a fresh gown from the wardrobe and went into the bathroom to give myself a quick brushing and washing up.
  Her hair was pinned in yesterday's curlers and her bathrobe hung limply around her, like a dirty gown.
  Down in Santa's bedroom his nightcap and gown hangs on the end of the bed.
  Dressing gowns of various designs were popular and slippers of all shapes and sizes kept the toes warm.
2. 1.2 A protective garment worn in hospital, either by a staff member during surgery or by a patient.
  （手术中医护人员或病人穿的）罩衣，防护服
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was also greeted with the sight of an elderly male patient, clad only in carpet slippers and a very badly fastened theatre gown, clutching his fag in one hand and his mobile drip stand in the other.
  We prefer that you wear the hospital's gowns during the first two three days after surgery, as these open in the back, allowing us to change the bandages on your back.
  I watched him leave and stripped out of the stupid white gowns they give in hospitals that leave you half naked at the back.
  Once she's changed into the hospital gown and settled in the bed, we're allowed to sit with her until it's time for the operation.
  You may be asked to change into a hospital gown for the test.
  I walked into the restroom and changed from the hospital gown into my normal clothes.
  The doctor looked up from the child on the bed, now clothed in a hospital gown with an ID bracelet around her wrist.
  On a recent visit, in the hallway outside an M.R.I. room, a patient milled around in a light blue paper gown.
  A nurse helped me get changed into a hospital gown, and get into the bed.
  When I got out side in my hospital gown it was freezing cold.
  You will then be asked to remove all your clothes and put on a loose gown that ties at the back of your body.
  He or she gives the patient a hospital gown and sees that all clothing and jewelry is given to a family member or sent to a service center for safekeeping.
  You will be in a hospital gown as zippers and snap fasteners can interfere with the scan.
  The nurse or the assistant measures and documents the patient's vital signs and instructs the patient to change into a hospital gown.
  After changing into a hospital gown, the patient lies on a cart or bed and covers his or her hair with a cap.
  In addition to equipment, assess the need for and obtain any special supplies, such as extra wound care dressings and special-sized gowns.
  Before the surgery, you may be asked to wear a hospital gown.
  Cecil had been stripped, washed and put into a hospital gown.
  Extra-large patient gowns and blood pressure cuffs require a small investment by the hospital and should be stocked routinely.
  Attendants must use masks, gloves, disposable gowns and eye protection.
3. 1.3 A loose cloak indicating one's profession or status, worn by a lawyer, teacher, academic, or college student.
  （律师、教师、学者或大学生穿戴的，代表职业或地位的）宽松长袍，宽大外衣
  Example sentencesExamples
  Only the scholar's gown suggested the high academic ability which was to bring her great distinction.
  On one hand, the magnificent building, evocative organ music, and procession of staff and students in their gowns gave the ceremony a certain meaning and significance.
  The caps, gowns, and diplomas may look the same, but the groves of academe have changed radically over the past quarter century.
  I've a formal dinner on Wednesday requiring black tie and academic gown.
  I bumped into some of my friends at Uni whilst collecting my gown and that helped me relax, which was necessary.
  The judge Mr Justice Hooper and lawyers have dispensed with their wigs and gowns for the trial which is expected to last three months.
  The unusual tag on the back of lawyers' gowns is an atrophied remnant of a pouch for food - a sort of legal culinary appendix.
  Just as importantly, a jury forms a reassuring lay tribunal between the polished professionals in their gowns and wigs and the common man or woman.
  Although the wearing of academic dress was not compulsory, many senior university figures turned up with their scholars' gowns flowing and mortarboards on their heads.
  The priest rose, straightening his filthy gown.
  The teachers wore their academic gowns at all times and went swishing along the corridors between classes.
  We lived in Graduate College and we ate together, particularly dinner at Procter Hall where academic gowns were required attire.
  In his navy blue graduation gown he looked so wise that I had to smile when I looked up at him from my seat.
  A large crowd of proud family members and friends turned up to see the children, dressed in gowns and mortar boards, received their certificates of Achievement the afternoon ceremony.
  And, to ensure equitable treatment of both pupils and staff, teachers should surely be banned from wearing hoods on their academic gowns on speech day.
  He was capped and dressed in a long gown, red shoes, and a red silk sash with a silk ball on his chest.
  The gown turned out to be an academic gown, not a legal one.
  Now, do you remember your graduation, walking down the aisle, wearing your cap and gown?
  They will all don caps and gowns for the ceremonies in the Great Hall of the University's Richmond Building.
  There was another picture of Frank in his uniform and one of Evelyn in her cap and gown from high school.
4. 1.4 The members of a college as distinct from the permanent residents of the college town.
  （区别于大学城永久居民的）大学师生
  efforts are underway to improve town-gown relations
  Often contrasted with town
  Example sentencesExamples
  Seeking to apply his theories, Geddes decided that town and gown in Edinburgh lived too far apart, so pioneered a plan to bring them together.
  In both Oxford and Cambridge, gown dominates the town.
  It has taken this further with its detailed submission as to how a campus at York Central would be good for town and gown.
  The new student union president has set a target of creating town and gown harmony and is keen to work closely with council.
  It is often said that town and gown, city and university, are indeed far away from each other, despite their proximity on the crow-flying map of York.
  But controversial plans to erect wind turbines across St Andrews have reignited the animosity between town and gown.
  The result is a city formed by the very rich and the very poor - and nowhere is the gap between town and gown more profound.

verbɡounɡaʊn

be gowned

Be dressed in a gown.
晨衣
she was gowned in luminous silk
她穿着绚丽的丝绸长袍。
Example sentencesExamples
- The faculty was splendid in their academic regalia, students all gowned with their mortar and tassel led by a marshal carrying the college's mace.
- After everyone had already been seated, including the king, I walked slowly, gracefully into the grand hall, gowned brilliantly in gold cloth.
- Bligh and Madeleine watched for a while, then as the crowd thinned they approached a gowned priest and asked him what was happening.
- Through the crowd I could see a small, gowned body making its way toward us.
- Please, take this young woman and see that she is bathed in the finest perfume, and gowned, jeweled, and crowned.
- Today, she was still gowned in white, much like Amelea, but this dress's collar went up to her chin.
- For formal events the guys must be in a black suit or tux, the women must be gowned.
- I came to court this morning on a civil matter that would not require me to be gowned.
- In a colourful ceremony the scholars, who were robed and gowned in full academic dress, were presented with their award by the president in front of the deans, doctors and dons of the college.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French goune, from late Latin gunna ‘fur garment’; probably related to Byzantine Greek gouna ‘fur, fur-lined garment’.

单词	gown
释义	Definition of gown in English: gown noun ɡaʊnɡaʊn 1A long elegant dress worn on formal occasions. a silk ball gown 一件丝绸的舞会袍。 Example sentencesExamples The model stood wearing a beautiful white wedding gown with lots of pretty jewelry. Roman watched as his mother emerged from her room, dressed in her ball gown and sparkling in rubies. The gowns were grand and formal, but still utterly feminine. I walked slowly, observing the fancy ball gowns and simple wool dresses. All around there were hundreds of dresses and gowns for all occasions hanging upon the walls. She was very pretty in an elegant gown, clutching a bouquet of pink tulips. I slipped into a scarlet red gown and some black platforms. Many cruises still offer one or more optional formal dinners where ladies where long formal gowns or other evening dresses and gentlemen wear tuxedos or dark suits. When one goes to great effort and expense for that perfect gown, no one wants to see it on someone else. Juliana was wearing a pink low-necked gown with puffed sleeves. They walked to the very end of the manor, and entered a huge hall filled with lords and ladies, all dressed splendidly in flowing gowns and silk suits, embroidered with golden designs. I was walking faster and faster down the aisle when I realized I was standing on the train of my aunt's bridal gown. They dressed in their finest gowns of silk and satin, jewels of gold, elegant shoes and shawls. Everyone was dressed in luxurious gowns and tuxes. She looked absolutely lovely in her elegant gown of pale yellow, which brought out the golden highlights in her long hair. The bridesmaids ran around in their delightfully elegant pastel pink organza gowns. Another woman there had been a lifelong seamstress who made elegant gowns. We are renewing our vows a week before in Las Vegas and the one thing I would really love is an original wedding gown. Only a handful of people were actually dressed up in gowns and tuxedos. Suzanne has designed, cut and sewn the most individual, creative and elegant gowns worn by celebrities for the past 20 years. Synonyms dress, frock, shift, robe garment, costume 1.1 A dressing gown. 晨衣 Example sentencesExamples Down in Santa's bedroom his nightcap and gown hangs on the end of the bed. Dressing gowns of various designs were popular and slippers of all shapes and sizes kept the toes warm. The next morning, I changed into a fresh gown from the wardrobe and went into the bathroom to give myself a quick brushing and washing up. Her hair was pinned in yesterday's curlers and her bathrobe hung limply around her, like a dirty gown. 1.2 A protective garment worn in hospital, either by a staff member during surgery or by a patient. （手术中医护人员或病人穿的）罩衣，防护服 Example sentencesExamples She was also greeted with the sight of an elderly male patient, clad only in carpet slippers and a very badly fastened theatre gown, clutching his fag in one hand and his mobile drip stand in the other. I walked into the restroom and changed from the hospital gown into my normal clothes. The nurse or the assistant measures and documents the patient's vital signs and instructs the patient to change into a hospital gown. Before the surgery, you may be asked to wear a hospital gown. Once she's changed into the hospital gown and settled in the bed, we're allowed to sit with her until it's time for the operation. In addition to equipment, assess the need for and obtain any special supplies, such as extra wound care dressings and special-sized gowns. When I got out side in my hospital gown it was freezing cold. We prefer that you wear the hospital's gowns during the first two three days after surgery, as these open in the back, allowing us to change the bandages on your back. After changing into a hospital gown, the patient lies on a cart or bed and covers his or her hair with a cap. Attendants must use masks, gloves, disposable gowns and eye protection. The doctor looked up from the child on the bed, now clothed in a hospital gown with an ID bracelet around her wrist. Extra-large patient gowns and blood pressure cuffs require a small investment by the hospital and should be stocked routinely. He or she gives the patient a hospital gown and sees that all clothing and jewelry is given to a family member or sent to a service center for safekeeping. I watched him leave and stripped out of the stupid white gowns they give in hospitals that leave you half naked at the back. A nurse helped me get changed into a hospital gown, and get into the bed. You will be in a hospital gown as zippers and snap fasteners can interfere with the scan. On a recent visit, in the hallway outside an M.R.I. room, a patient milled around in a light blue paper gown. You may be asked to change into a hospital gown for the test. You will then be asked to remove all your clothes and put on a loose gown that ties at the back of your body. Cecil had been stripped, washed and put into a hospital gown. 1.3 A loose cloak indicating one's profession or status, worn by a lawyer, teacher, academic, or university student. （律师、教师、学者或大学生穿戴的，代表职业或地位的）宽松长袍，宽大外衣 Example sentencesExamples The gown turned out to be an academic gown, not a legal one. The judge Mr Justice Hooper and lawyers have dispensed with their wigs and gowns for the trial which is expected to last three months. On one hand, the magnificent building, evocative organ music, and procession of staff and students in their gowns gave the ceremony a certain meaning and significance. Just as importantly, a jury forms a reassuring lay tribunal between the polished professionals in their gowns and wigs and the common man or woman. A large crowd of proud family members and friends turned up to see the children, dressed in gowns and mortar boards, received their certificates of Achievement the afternoon ceremony. The teachers wore their academic gowns at all times and went swishing along the corridors between classes. The unusual tag on the back of lawyers' gowns is an atrophied remnant of a pouch for food - a sort of legal culinary appendix. Only the scholar's gown suggested the high academic ability which was to bring her great distinction. The priest rose, straightening his filthy gown. There was another picture of Frank in his uniform and one of Evelyn in her cap and gown from high school. He was capped and dressed in a long gown, red shoes, and a red silk sash with a silk ball on his chest. And, to ensure equitable treatment of both pupils and staff, teachers should surely be banned from wearing hoods on their academic gowns on speech day. We lived in Graduate College and we ate together, particularly dinner at Procter Hall where academic gowns were required attire. They will all don caps and gowns for the ceremonies in the Great Hall of the University's Richmond Building. In his navy blue graduation gown he looked so wise that I had to smile when I looked up at him from my seat. Although the wearing of academic dress was not compulsory, many senior university figures turned up with their scholars' gowns flowing and mortarboards on their heads. Now, do you remember your graduation, walking down the aisle, wearing your cap and gown? I bumped into some of my friends at Uni whilst collecting my gown and that helped me relax, which was necessary. I've a formal dinner on Wednesday requiring black tie and academic gown. The caps, gowns, and diplomas may look the same, but the groves of academe have changed radically over the past quarter century. 1.4mass noun The members of a university as distinct from the permanent residents of the university town. （区别于大学城永久居民的）大学师生 Often contrasted with town Example sentencesExamples Seeking to apply his theories, Geddes decided that town and gown in Edinburgh lived too far apart, so pioneered a plan to bring them together. In both Oxford and Cambridge, gown dominates the town. It has taken this further with its detailed submission as to how a campus at York Central would be good for town and gown. But controversial plans to erect wind turbines across St Andrews have reignited the animosity between town and gown. The result is a city formed by the very rich and the very poor - and nowhere is the gap between town and gown more profound. The new student union president has set a target of creating town and gown harmony and is keen to work closely with council. It is often said that town and gown, city and university, are indeed far away from each other, despite their proximity on the crow-flying map of York. verb ɡaʊnɡaʊn be gowned 1Be dressed in a gown. 晨衣 she was gowned in luminous silk 她穿着绚丽的丝绸长袍。 Example sentencesExamples For formal events the guys must be in a black suit or tux, the women must be gowned. Please, take this young woman and see that she is bathed in the finest perfume, and gowned, jeweled, and crowned. After everyone had already been seated, including the king, I walked slowly, gracefully into the grand hall, gowned brilliantly in gold cloth. Today, she was still gowned in white, much like Amelea, but this dress's collar went up to her chin. I came to court this morning on a civil matter that would not require me to be gowned. Through the crowd I could see a small, gowned body making its way toward us. Bligh and Madeleine watched for a while, then as the crowd thinned they approached a gowned priest and asked him what was happening. The faculty was splendid in their academic regalia, students all gowned with their mortar and tassel led by a marshal carrying the college's mace. In a colourful ceremony the scholars, who were robed and gowned in full academic dress, were presented with their award by the president in front of the deans, doctors and dons of the college. 1.1gown upno object Put on a surgical gown. the lab is supposed to be sterile, so you have to gown up Example sentencesExamples The neurosurgeon scrubbed and gowned, and the surgery began. The sonographer scrubs and is gowned and gloved for the procedure. Then I was introduced to the surgeon who, suitably gowned and gloved, was there in case of cardiac arrest. Observe and practice perioperative procedures to use in your everyday practice, including hand hygiene, gowning, gloving, and skin preparation. He was in some sort of operating room, surrounded by masked and gowned men and women in blue surgical gear. The 65-year-old, who is pictured right, was gowned up and set to be taken to the operating theatre to have the surgery when doctors called a halt. The other videotape included a demonstration of the department's procedure for surgical scrubbing, proper gowning, self-gloving using a closed glove technique, and gowning and gloving another person. Only a gowned and gloved person should help another person don a sterile gown and gloves, place sterile drapes, or prepare the sterile field. I have been taught that if you are not gowned and gloved, you cannot touch something that is sterile. She claimed her daughter was not properly checked and gowned before being given the anaesthetic. Quickly thanking the nurse, the couple gowned up and hurried to their daughter's room to find her sitting up and waiting for them. Plastic surgeon Michael Kelly is masked and gowned, his male patient sedated. Volunteers also work as hospital guides, or on out-patient departments, meeting patients, helping them get gowned up for an X-ray and offering them a cup of tea. Kristyn and her parents had walked a little further ahead and were gowning up. In the laboratory setting, participants practice the skills discussed in the classroom, including scrubbing, gowning, gloving, positioning, and prepping. How many times in med school did I contaminated myself and had to re-scrub and gown? The scrub student gowned and gloved, set up sterile fields, draped patients, and assisted with surgery. Origin Middle English: from Old French goune, from late Latin gunna 'fur garment'; probably related to Byzantine Greek gouna 'fur, fur-lined garment'. Old French goune is the source of gown, from late Latin gunna ‘fur garment’. Rhymes brown, Browne, clown, crown, down, downtown, drown, frown, low-down, noun, renown, run-down, town, upside-down, uptown Definition of gown in US English: gown nounɡounɡaʊn 1A long dress, typically having a close-fitting bodice and a flared or flowing skirt, worn on formal occasions. （尤指正式场合穿着的有紧身胸衣和舒展长裙的）长礼服；裙服 a silk ball gown 一件丝绸的舞会袍。 Example sentencesExamples Everyone was dressed in luxurious gowns and tuxes. Only a handful of people were actually dressed up in gowns and tuxedos. Juliana was wearing a pink low-necked gown with puffed sleeves. Suzanne has designed, cut and sewn the most individual, creative and elegant gowns worn by celebrities for the past 20 years. I was walking faster and faster down the aisle when I realized I was standing on the train of my aunt's bridal gown. I slipped into a scarlet red gown and some black platforms. She looked absolutely lovely in her elegant gown of pale yellow, which brought out the golden highlights in her long hair. The gowns were grand and formal, but still utterly feminine. All around there were hundreds of dresses and gowns for all occasions hanging upon the walls. Roman watched as his mother emerged from her room, dressed in her ball gown and sparkling in rubies. Another woman there had been a lifelong seamstress who made elegant gowns. The model stood wearing a beautiful white wedding gown with lots of pretty jewelry. They walked to the very end of the manor, and entered a huge hall filled with lords and ladies, all dressed splendidly in flowing gowns and silk suits, embroidered with golden designs. She was very pretty in an elegant gown, clutching a bouquet of pink tulips. They dressed in their finest gowns of silk and satin, jewels of gold, elegant shoes and shawls. When one goes to great effort and expense for that perfect gown, no one wants to see it on someone else. I walked slowly, observing the fancy ball gowns and simple wool dresses. We are renewing our vows a week before in Las Vegas and the one thing I would really love is an original wedding gown. The bridesmaids ran around in their delightfully elegant pastel pink organza gowns. Many cruises still offer one or more optional formal dinners where ladies where long formal gowns or other evening dresses and gentlemen wear tuxedos or dark suits. Synonyms dress, frock, shift, robe 1.1 A dressing gown. 晨衣 Example sentencesExamples The next morning, I changed into a fresh gown from the wardrobe and went into the bathroom to give myself a quick brushing and washing up. Her hair was pinned in yesterday's curlers and her bathrobe hung limply around her, like a dirty gown. Down in Santa's bedroom his nightcap and gown hangs on the end of the bed. Dressing gowns of various designs were popular and slippers of all shapes and sizes kept the toes warm. 1.2 A protective garment worn in hospital, either by a staff member during surgery or by a patient. （手术中医护人员或病人穿的）罩衣，防护服 Example sentencesExamples She was also greeted with the sight of an elderly male patient, clad only in carpet slippers and a very badly fastened theatre gown, clutching his fag in one hand and his mobile drip stand in the other. We prefer that you wear the hospital's gowns during the first two three days after surgery, as these open in the back, allowing us to change the bandages on your back. I watched him leave and stripped out of the stupid white gowns they give in hospitals that leave you half naked at the back. Once she's changed into the hospital gown and settled in the bed, we're allowed to sit with her until it's time for the operation. You may be asked to change into a hospital gown for the test. I walked into the restroom and changed from the hospital gown into my normal clothes. The doctor looked up from the child on the bed, now clothed in a hospital gown with an ID bracelet around her wrist. On a recent visit, in the hallway outside an M.R.I. room, a patient milled around in a light blue paper gown. A nurse helped me get changed into a hospital gown, and get into the bed. When I got out side in my hospital gown it was freezing cold. You will then be asked to remove all your clothes and put on a loose gown that ties at the back of your body. He or she gives the patient a hospital gown and sees that all clothing and jewelry is given to a family member or sent to a service center for safekeeping. You will be in a hospital gown as zippers and snap fasteners can interfere with the scan. The nurse or the assistant measures and documents the patient's vital signs and instructs the patient to change into a hospital gown. After changing into a hospital gown, the patient lies on a cart or bed and covers his or her hair with a cap. In addition to equipment, assess the need for and obtain any special supplies, such as extra wound care dressings and special-sized gowns. Before the surgery, you may be asked to wear a hospital gown. Cecil had been stripped, washed and put into a hospital gown. Extra-large patient gowns and blood pressure cuffs require a small investment by the hospital and should be stocked routinely. Attendants must use masks, gloves, disposable gowns and eye protection. 1.3 A loose cloak indicating one's profession or status, worn by a lawyer, teacher, academic, or college student. （律师、教师、学者或大学生穿戴的，代表职业或地位的）宽松长袍，宽大外衣 Example sentencesExamples Only the scholar's gown suggested the high academic ability which was to bring her great distinction. On one hand, the magnificent building, evocative organ music, and procession of staff and students in their gowns gave the ceremony a certain meaning and significance. The caps, gowns, and diplomas may look the same, but the groves of academe have changed radically over the past quarter century. I've a formal dinner on Wednesday requiring black tie and academic gown. I bumped into some of my friends at Uni whilst collecting my gown and that helped me relax, which was necessary. The judge Mr Justice Hooper and lawyers have dispensed with their wigs and gowns for the trial which is expected to last three months. The unusual tag on the back of lawyers' gowns is an atrophied remnant of a pouch for food - a sort of legal culinary appendix. Just as importantly, a jury forms a reassuring lay tribunal between the polished professionals in their gowns and wigs and the common man or woman. Although the wearing of academic dress was not compulsory, many senior university figures turned up with their scholars' gowns flowing and mortarboards on their heads. The priest rose, straightening his filthy gown. The teachers wore their academic gowns at all times and went swishing along the corridors between classes. We lived in Graduate College and we ate together, particularly dinner at Procter Hall where academic gowns were required attire. In his navy blue graduation gown he looked so wise that I had to smile when I looked up at him from my seat. A large crowd of proud family members and friends turned up to see the children, dressed in gowns and mortar boards, received their certificates of Achievement the afternoon ceremony. And, to ensure equitable treatment of both pupils and staff, teachers should surely be banned from wearing hoods on their academic gowns on speech day. He was capped and dressed in a long gown, red shoes, and a red silk sash with a silk ball on his chest. The gown turned out to be an academic gown, not a legal one. Now, do you remember your graduation, walking down the aisle, wearing your cap and gown? They will all don caps and gowns for the ceremonies in the Great Hall of the University's Richmond Building. There was another picture of Frank in his uniform and one of Evelyn in her cap and gown from high school. 1.4 The members of a college as distinct from the permanent residents of the college town. （区别于大学城永久居民的）大学师生 efforts are underway to improve town-gown relations Often contrasted with town Example sentencesExamples Seeking to apply his theories, Geddes decided that town and gown in Edinburgh lived too far apart, so pioneered a plan to bring them together. In both Oxford and Cambridge, gown dominates the town. It has taken this further with its detailed submission as to how a campus at York Central would be good for town and gown. The new student union president has set a target of creating town and gown harmony and is keen to work closely with council. It is often said that town and gown, city and university, are indeed far away from each other, despite their proximity on the crow-flying map of York. But controversial plans to erect wind turbines across St Andrews have reignited the animosity between town and gown. The result is a city formed by the very rich and the very poor - and nowhere is the gap between town and gown more profound. verbɡounɡaʊn be gowned Be dressed in a gown. 晨衣 she was gowned in luminous silk 她穿着绚丽的丝绸长袍。 Example sentencesExamples The faculty was splendid in their academic regalia, students all gowned with their mortar and tassel led by a marshal carrying the college's mace. After everyone had already been seated, including the king, I walked slowly, gracefully into the grand hall, gowned brilliantly in gold cloth. Bligh and Madeleine watched for a while, then as the crowd thinned they approached a gowned priest and asked him what was happening. Through the crowd I could see a small, gowned body making its way toward us. Please, take this young woman and see that she is bathed in the finest perfume, and gowned, jeweled, and crowned. Today, she was still gowned in white, much like Amelea, but this dress's collar went up to her chin. For formal events the guys must be in a black suit or tux, the women must be gowned. I came to court this morning on a civil matter that would not require me to be gowned. In a colourful ceremony the scholars, who were robed and gowned in full academic dress, were presented with their award by the president in front of the deans, doctors and dons of the college. Origin Middle English: from Old French goune, from late Latin gunna ‘fur garment’; probably related to Byzantine Greek gouna ‘fur, fur-lined garment’.
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