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Meaning of 'carpet' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Carpet [ n.]
- A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.
- A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.
2 . Carpet [ v. t.]
- To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.

Meaning of 'carpet' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . carpet [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet
Example in sentence:
  • a carpet of flowers;
  • the larvae of some moths spin a web that resembles a carpet
2 . carpet [ v]
Meaning (2):
- cover with a carpet
Example in sentence:
  • carpet the floors of the house
Meaning (3):
- cover completely, as if with a carpet
Example in sentence:
  • flowers carpeted the meadows

Nearby Words:

car car wheel carabid carabine carabineer caraboid carabus carac caracal caracara

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