uniform

UK/ˈjuːnɪfɔːm/US/ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/

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Other forms: uniforms

A uniform is the identical set of clothes worn by everyone at a school or in a job. Same colour, same badge, no choices.

The point of it is recognition and belonging, which is why the police, the armed forces, nurses and schoolchildren all wear one. In uniform means on duty or in service. The word is also an adjective meaning the same throughout, as in a uniform thickness or uniform temperature, and that is the older sense — one form, from Latin. Anything uniform has no variation in it anywhere.

Definitions of uniform

1noununiformA set of identical clothes worn by members of a group.A2~92%
“She ironed his school uniform on Sunday night.”
2adjectivethroughoutThe same throughout, with no variation.B2~8%
“Roll the pastry to a uniform thickness.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 13 sentences found in the wild and placed 13 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

Where it comes from

Latin
uniformis
Middle French
uniforme
English, today
uniform

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis., from Latin uniformis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Clothes & Fashion, A Man Called Ove, Military & Defence

First appears in chapter 10 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

uniform in the wild

For some organizations, such as police, it may be illegal for non-members to wear the uniform.
Uniform
A school uniform is a uniform worn by students primarily for a school or otherwise an educational institution.
School uniform
Sometimes added to the casual wear category is physical training uniforms.
Military uniform
The study used to design and produce military uniforms is referred to as military textile science.
Military uniform
Mess dress uniform is the most formal (or semi-formal, depending on the country) type of evening-wear uniform used by military personnel, police personnel, and other uniformed services members.
Mess dress uniform

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Related words

uniformity

Definitions of uniform

1noununiformA set of identical clothes worn by members of a group.A2~92%

“She ironed his school uniform on Sunday night.”

2adjectivethroughoutThe same throughout, with no variation.B2~8%

“Roll the pastry to a uniform thickness.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 13 sentences found in the wild and placed 13 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.