Usually means: Formal dress for special occasions.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word GOWN:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gown: Merriam-Webster
  2. gown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gown: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gown: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gown, gown: Wordnik
  7. gown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gown: Wiktionary
  9. gown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gown: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gown, gown: Dictionary.com
  13. gown: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gown (disambiguation), Gown, The Gown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gown: Rhymezone
  19. gown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gown: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Gown: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. gown: FreeDictionary.org
  23. gown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gown: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. gown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gown: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gown: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. gown: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gown: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gown: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gown)

noun:  A loose, flowing upper garment.
noun:  A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
noun:  The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
noun:  The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
noun:  (by metonymy) The university community, especially as contrasted with the local populace.
noun:  A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
noun:  Any sort of dress or garb.
noun:  The robe worn by a surgeon.
verb:  To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

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