CORDUROY meaning: Durable, ribbed fabric, usually cotton

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word corduroy:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

corduroy: Merriam-Webster
corduroy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
corduroy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
corduroy: Collins English Dictionary
corduroy: Vocabulary.com
Corduroy, corduroy: Wordnik
corduroy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
corduroy: Wiktionary
corduroy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
corduroy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
corduroy: Infoplease Dictionary
Corduroy, corduroy: Dictionary.com
corduroy: Online Etymology Dictionary
corduroy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Corduroy (Pearl Jam song), Corduroy (TV series), Corduroy (band), Corduroy (book), Corduroy (cat), Corduroy (song), Corduroy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Corduroy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
corduroy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
corduroy: Rhymezone
corduroy, corduroy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
corduroy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
corduroy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
corduroy: FreeDictionary.org
corduroy: Mnemonic Dictionary
corduroy: TheFreeDictionary.com
Corduroy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
corduroy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Corduroy: Corporate Apparel Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

corduroy: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

corduroy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
corduroy: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Snowboarding Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)

Book Binding (No longer online)
Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
Textile (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, Ireland, slang) Cheap and poor-quality whiskey.
▸ noun:  A pattern on snow resulting from the use of a snow groomer to pack snow and improve skiing, snowboarding and snowmobile trail conditions. Corduroy is widely regarded as a good surface on which to ski or ride.
▸ adjective:  Of a road, path, etc., paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side.
▸ verb:  To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.

Similar:

cord, log, rough, unsmooth, union cloth, needlecord, broadcloth, coutil, ottoman, thickset, more...

Opposite:

smooth, flat, sleek, silky, even

Types:

wide wale, narrow wale, mini wale, velveteen, cotton, wool, more...

Phrases:

corduroy road, corduroy roads, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, more...

Adjectives:

brown, blue, green, dark, red, black, white, old, wale, rough, gray

Colors:

olive, mustard, burgundy, forest green, camel, more...