What does tailor mean?
Definitions for tailor
ˈteɪ lərtai·lor
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Princeton's WordNet
tailor, seamster, sartorverb
a person whose occupation is making and altering garments
tailor, orientverb
adjust to a specific need or market
"a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings"
cut, tailorverb
style and tailor in a certain fashion
"cut a dress"
sew, tailor, tailor-makeverb
create (clothes) with cloth
"Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?"
Wiktionary
tailornoun
A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
Etymology: From tailour, from tailleor, from tailler, from taliare, from talea ("a cutting").
tailornoun
The fish Pomatomus saltatrix.
Etymology: From tailour, from tailleor, from tailler, from taliare, from talea ("a cutting").
tailorverb
To make, repair, or alter clothes.
Etymology: From tailour, from tailleor, from tailler, from taliare, from talea ("a cutting").
tailorverb
To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
Etymology: From tailour, from tailleor, from tailler, from taliare, from talea ("a cutting").
tailorverb
To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need, e.g. a narrowly tailored law.
Etymology: From tailour, from tailleor, from tailler, from taliare, from talea ("a cutting").
Webster Dictionary
Tailornoun
one whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments
Tailornoun
the mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring
Tailornoun
the silversides
Tailornoun
the goldfish
Tailorverb
to practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor
Freebase
Tailor
A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, usually of wool, linen, or silk. The term refers to a set of specific hand and machine sewing and pressing techniques that are unique to the construction of traditional jackets. Retailers of tailored suits often take their services internationally, traveling to various cities, allowing the client to be measured locally. Traditional tailoring is called bespoke tailoring in the United Kingdom, where the heart of the trade is London's Savile Row tailoring, and custom tailoring in the United States and Hong Kong. This is unlike made to measure which uses pre-existing patterns. A bespoke garment or suit is completely original and unique to each customer. Famous fictional tailors include the tailor in The Emperor's New Clothes and Brave Little Tailor. A more recent title is John le Carré's The Tailor of Panama.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Tailor
tāl′ur, n. one whose business is to cut out and make men's clothes:—fem. Tail′oress.—v.i. to work as a tailor.—v.t. to make clothes for.—ns. Tail′or-bird, one of several Oriental small passerine birds which sew leaves together to form a nest: Tail′oring, the business or work of a tailor.—adj. Tail′or-made, made by a tailor, esp. of plain, close-fitting garments for women, in imitation of men's. [Fr. tailleur—tailler, to cut.]
Editors Contribution
tailor
A person with the accurate and specific ability, experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications and intuition to alter, create, adjust and make a variety of clothing and other products.
My brother is a tailor and has his shop on the local high street where he does a brisk trade.q
Submitted by MaryC on December 28, 2019
Etymology and Origins
Tailor
From the French tailleur, based upon the verb tailler, to cut.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tailor in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tailor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of tailor in a Sentence
If we understand the process, we may be able to tailor the treatment better, we are not there yet.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Regional grocers tailor their offerings by neighborhood, matching the experience to that local community.
Our human-assisted AI (artificial intelligence) can build tailor-made software using the collective knowledge of what has been built before; an assembly line connects re-usable features with specialist creators. - Engineer.ai CEO
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.
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- خيّاطArabic
- dərziAzerbaijani
- абаджия, шия, абаджийка, леферBulgarian
- kemenerBreton
- sastre, sastressa, tallahamsCatalan, Valencian
- krejčíCzech
- teiliwrWelsh
- skrædder, skrædderskeDanish
- schneidern, zuschneiden, Blaufisch, anpassen, Schneider, SchneiderinGerman
- ράπτης, ράφτης, μόδιστρος, γοφάρι, μοδίστραGreek
- tajloro, virtajloro, tajlorinoEsperanto
- modisto, modista, entallar, confeccionar, adaptar, anjova, sastreSpanish
- rätsepEstonian
- jostunBasque
- درزیPersian
- räätäli, vaatehtia, vaatturi, räätälöidä, sinikalaFinnish
- skraddariFaroese
- tailleur, adapter, tailleuse, tassergalFrench
- táilliúirIrish
- tàillearScottish Gaelic
- alfaiate, xastreGalician
- दर्ज़ीHindi
- szabóHungarian
- դերձակArmenian
- klæðskeri, skraddariIcelandic
- sartoItalian
- テーラー, 仕立て屋Japanese
- გაკერავს, ლუფარი, მკერავი, თერძიGeorgian
- scissorLatin
- ຊ່າງຕັດເຄື່ອງຜູ້ຊາຍLao
- melsvieji ešeriaiLithuanian
- кројач, крои, скројуваMacedonian
- jahitMalay
- ħajjata, ħajjatMaltese
- kleermaakster, kleermaker, kleermaken, aanpassenDutch
- skreddarNorwegian Nynorsk
- skredderske, skredderNorwegian
- tasergal, krawiec, krawcowa, skrzelołusk, lufarPolish
- xastre, alfaiate, alfaiata, anchova, enchovaPortuguese
- croi, lufar, croitor, croitoreasăRomanian
- швец, швея́, портно́й, шить, портни́ха, приспосабливать, луфа́рьRussian
- krojačica, кројити, ukrojiti, krojač, укројити, кројач, кројачица, krojitiSerbo-Croatian
- krajčírSlovak
- krojač, krojiti, ukrojitiSlovene
- skrädderska, blåfisk, skräddare, skrädarsy, anpassaSwedish
- దర్జీTelugu
- lüfer, terziTurkish
- درزیUrdu
- hiskrädan, jiskrädan, skrädanVolapük
- שנײַדער, שנײַדערקעYiddish
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