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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GENEVA GOWN

Named after Geneva.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GENEVA GOWN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GENEVA GOWN

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Geneva gown is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GENEVA GOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Geneva gown

The Geneva gown, also called a pulpit gown, pulpit robe, or preaching robe, is an ecclesiastical garment customarily worn by ordained ministers in the Christian churches that arose out of the historic Protestant Reformation.

Definition of Geneva gown in the English dictionary

The definition of Geneva gown in the dictionary is a long loose black gown with very wide sleeves worn by academics or Protestant clerics.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GENEVA GOWN

Geneva
Geneva bands
Geneva Convention
Geneva protocol
Genevan
Genevese
genevrette
Genf
Genfersee
Genghis Khan

WORDS THAT END LIKE GENEVA GOWN

academic gown
ball gown
ballgown
bedgown
bluegown
bridal gown
disgown
dressing gown
evening gown
gown
nightgown
shortgown
stuff gown
tea gown
undergown

Synonyms and antonyms of Geneva gown in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Geneva gown» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GENEVA GOWN

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The translations of Geneva gown from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Geneva gown» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

日内瓦礼服
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vestido de Ginebra
570 millions of speakers

English

Geneva gown
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जिनेवा गाउन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ثوب جنيف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Женева платье
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Genebra vestido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জেনেভা গাউন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

robe Genève
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Geneva gaun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Genf Kleid
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ジュネーブのガウン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

제네바 가운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Geneva gaun
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Geneva áo choàng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஜெனீவா கவுன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जिनिव्हा गाउन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

siyah cüppe
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Ginevra abito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Genewa suknia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Женева плаття
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Geneva rochie
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Γενεύη φόρεμα
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Genève toga
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Geneve kappa
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Genève kappe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Geneva gown

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GENEVA GOWN»

The term «Geneva gown» is barely ever used and occupies the 206.189 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GENEVA GOWN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Geneva gown

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GENEVA GOWN»

Discover the use of Geneva gown in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Geneva gown and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vestments for All Seasons
Geneva Gown This black academic gown is worn as a Protestant pulpit robe. The academic gown was adapted from the monastic habit because monasticism was the center of learning during the Middle Ages. In the sixteenth century John ...
Barbara Dee Baumgarten, 2002
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Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed ...
Visually, worship became more colorful. Many British and American clergy were still wearing the traditional Geneva gown and bands at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but their use soon waned except in certain large urban churches, ...
Charles D. Cashdollar, 2010
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John Calvin, Reformer for the 21st Century
Instead, ministers who presided at the Lord's Supper wore a simple black Geneva gown, attire that would have been considered ordinary street clothes. Ironically, today the Geneva gown, the standard garb of a scholar in Calvin's time, has ...
William Stacy Johnson, 2009
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Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith
ROBERT M. KINGDON Geneva Gown Traditionally the vestment of most Reformed and Presbyterian ministers. The Geneva Gown is an adaptation of the outdoor dress of the clergy of the Middle Ages and was originally a black gown worn ...
Donald K. McKim, David F. Wright, 1992
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
See also RED CROSS. Geneva gown n> noun the long dark preaching gown by the early Protestant reformers and still the i form of pulpit-gown among Presbyterians. d.vVni:von and Genevese /d3cns'vi:z/ o- ad) belonging or relating to the city ...
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The Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms, Second ...
Geneva gown A black gown worn for preaching by early 16th-century Reformed ministers in Geneva. It was worn to emphasize the ministry of the Word of God as opposed to ministries emphasizing the sacrificial priesthood. Geneva Psalter A ...
Donald K. McKim, 2014
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The Complete Costume Dictionary
Geneva gown: Ecclesiastical vestment made as long, loose gown with large sleeves. Geneva hat: Charles I (1625–1660 C.E.). Man's broad brimmed, high crowned hat worn by Puritan ministers and others. Sometimes untrimmed. Geneva ...
Elizabeth J. Lewandowski, 2011
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Geneva gown. The black preaching—gown worn by the early *Reformed ministers, loose fitting, with full sleeves. It was almost universally replaced by a surplice for Ang— lican preachers in the 19th cent. after some controversy, and is now ...
Frank Leslie Cross, Elizabeth A. Livingstone, 2005
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The Encyclopedia of Christianity
In North America, Lutherans (® Lutheran Churches) — but also many other Protestants — made a profound change from the black “Geneva gown” to the cassock and stole (worn over a surplice), to alb with stole. Increasingly, chasuble and ...
Erwin Fahlbusch, 2008
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The Chambers Dictionary
... Geneva gown the long dark preaching gown of the early Geneva reformers, and still the common form of pulpit-gown among Presbyterians; Geneva movement, mechanism, etc (eng) a mechanism which converts continuous into intermittent ...
Allied Chambers, 1998

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GENEVA GOWN»

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Thank God my country is still intact
I don't much care at the moment whether God is Scottish, and is glowering approvingly at Great Britain from over His bands and Geneva gown, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
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Scottish independence campaign: the referendum as the votes were …
I don't much care at the moment whether God is Scottish, and is glowering approvingly at Great Britain from over His bands and Geneva gown, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
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Ask the Pastor: What is the deal with pastoral robes?
The black robe, sometimes called a Geneva Gown, worn by preachers of some denominations finds its roots in the academic clothing of the ... «Algona Upper Des Moines, Jun 14»
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Glasgow's city of the dead
Erected in 1825 when the area was still known as Fir Park, the 12 foot high statue shows Knox wearing a Geneva gown with the Bible firmly ... «The Edinburgh Journal, Oct 12»
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A major centre for Eucharistic Adoration and the Old Mass? It's the …
Why, the priest might as well be wearing a Geneva gown with bands and distributing communion in the form of little cubes of stale bread and ... «Catholic Herald Online, Jun 11»

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