carpet

noun

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

(figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

(slang, vulgar) A woman's pubic hair.

Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

(obsolete) A wrought cover for tables.

verb

(transitive) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.

To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

(UK) To reprimand.

Roots

carperecarpet- · Latin · to pluck, card (unraveled cloth)

Synonyms for carpet

rugn moquetten flooringn druggetn broadloomn floorboardsn matn parquetn doormatn tilingn

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