dress- root words — words with the dress- root

The root dress- comes from Old French dresser, meaning arrange, prepare. 3 words in Dendril are built from it, including hairdresser, hairdressing, battledress. Dendril shows them on a free interactive word map — no signup, no ads.

Words that use the dress- root

Explore words with dress- — words containing the dress- root and sharing its sense of "arrange, prepare". Examples include hairdresser, hairdressing, battledress. Click any word to see its own roots, definition, and related words.

What does dress- mean?

The dress- root means arrange, prepare, from Old French dresser. Recognizing it helps you decode and remember the many English words built on this root.