Glove Definition

glŭv
gloved, gloves, gloving
noun
gloves
A covering for the hand, made of leather, cloth, etc., with a separate sheath for each finger and the thumb.
Webster's New World
A similar covering of padded leather worn by players in the field.
Webster's New World
A gauntlet.
American Heritage
An oversized leather glove used for catching baseballs, especially one with more finger sheaths than the catcher's or first baseman's mitt.
American Heritage
A glove made of leather and fabric having padding on the back and extending over the wrist, used in hockey and lacrosse.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
gloved, gloves, gloving
To supply with gloves.
Webster's New World
To cover with or as with a glove.
Webster's New World
To don gloves, as before performing an operation on a patient.
American Heritage
To catch (a ball) with a glove.
Webster's New World
idiom
fit like a glove
  • to fit perfectly
Webster's New World
put on the gloves
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Glove

Noun

Singular:
glove
Plural:
gloves

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Origin of Glove

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English glōf

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Glove Sentence Examples

  • There was an old-school cell phone in the glove box.

  • He wiped the tear away with a thumb and then opened the glove compartment.

  • She'd forgotten his presence, but he peeled off one glove to display a scarred forearm and hand.

  • He peeled off a glove to display a hand as scarred as his face.

  • His glove was carried to his cousin Constance, wife of Peter of Aragon, the last of th great Norman-Swabian family.

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