sweaters

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of sweater.

   He folded his sweaters and stacked them in the dresser drawer.

   Hand-knit sweaters from the local market sold out within an hour.

   Note

   More garments than one, usually, but the plural also covers a whole family of sweat-words. A sweater can be the knitted jersey athletes pull on around exercise, the warmer everyday garment Americans mean, a person who sweats, a remedy that brings on sweating, or, historically, the exploitative middleman who subcontracted piecework in the tailoring trade. In ordinary talk the context almost always settles it on clothing.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of sweater.

   Note

   A verb made from the garment: to sweater someone is to dress them in a sweater, so it always takes an object, whether the dog, the child or the whole family. It is spelled exactly like the plural noun. The sentence tells them apart: after a singular subject, as in "she sweaters the dog," it is the verb.

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