How to spell coat

Coat is spelled C-O-A-T.

hear itcoat/koʊt/nounSounds

What it means: An outer garment for warmth.

In a sentence: I wore my warm coat on a cold winter day.

Same family: coated, coating, overcoat, layer, cover. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb “coat” comes from the noun “coat,” which came into English from Old French in the Middle Ages, originally referring to a kind of outer garment. Over time, the idea of a garment covering the body expanded, and “to coat” came to mean covering any surface with a thin layer of something.

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