Noun: glove
| Singular | glove |
| Plural | gloves |
Sample Sentences
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I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.
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The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.
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Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.
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to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it
Nouns inflected like glove
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof. See: Middle English Nouns '
glove', Icelandic Nouns '
glófi', Middle English Nouns '
lofe'.
Verbs referencing "glove"
Dutch Nouns
loef, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
lóve, Zulu Nouns
igilavu, Icelandic Nouns
glófi.