trousersとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaʊzəz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaʊzɚz/
• 韻: -aʊzəz, -aʊzə(ɹ)z
• ハイフネーション: trou‧sers

名詞

trousers pl (複数形 only)

1. An article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles or knees, and is divided into a separate part for each leg.

   Synonyms: breeches, britches, (all Britain, dialectal) kecks, (主に米国用法) pants, (Australia) strides; see also Thesaurus:trousers

   The trousers need to be shortened.

   Why can women wear trousers when men can’t wear skirts?

   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, “The Dissolution”, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828, page 3:

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     The effect the apparition had on me was to make me start violently, and we all know what happens when you start violently while holding a full cup of tea. The contents of mine flew through the air and came to rest on the trousers of Aubrey Upjohn, MA, moistening them to no little extent. Indeed, it would scarcely be distorting the facts to say that he was now not so much wearing trousers as wearing tea. [...] "I see you have not changed since you were with me at Malvern House," he said in an extremely nasty voice, dabbing at the trousers with a handkerchief. [...] "Frightfully sorry," I said. "Too late to be sorry now. A new pair of trousers ruined. It is doubtful if anything can remove the stain of tea from white flannel."

使用する際の注意点

• Pants is about four times more common in the US than trousers, based on use in COCA.
• Trousers is about nine times more common in the UK than pants, based on use in BNC.
• Slacks about one tenth as common as pants in the US and trousers in the UK.

下位語

• see Thesaurus:trousers

派生語

関連する語

• trouser

派生した語

• → Gamilaraay: tharrawurra
• → Irish: treabhsar
• → Jersey Dutch: trāuzer (from the 単数形)
• → Marshallese: jedo̧ujij
• → Welsh: trowsus, trowser, trywsus

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