Slippers are the soft shoes you wear indoors, at home, where boots would be silly. Kicked off by the front door, warmed on the radiator, worn with pyjamas at seven in the morning.
They come in pairs and English keeps them plural: a pair of slippers, 'my slippers are by the bed'. One on its own is a slipper. Hotels leave slippers in the room beside the robe, and long flights hand them out with the socks. A ballet slipper is a different thing — a light flat shoe for dancing — and Cinderella's glass slipper belongs to that older sense of a delicate shoe worn for an evening. In some Englishes slippers means flip-flops; in Britain and the US it means indoor shoes, so calling your sandals slippers will get you a puzzled look.
1nounslippersSoft, comfortable shoes worn indoors.~64%
“He shuffled to the kitchen in his slippers and put the kettle on.”
2nounlightA light, flat shoe worn for dancing or with evening dress.~36%
“The dancers laced their ballet slippers in the corridor.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 11 sentences found in the wild and placed 11 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
slippers is a kind of shoe.