blanket
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
Example
“The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.”
Other meanings
A covering layer of anything.
“The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.”
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
“A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.”
Synonyms
- mantle
Related words
- unblanketed
- biliblanket
- blanket head
- blanketless
- blanketly
- blanketmaker
- blanketmaking
- blanketman
- blankety
- overblanket
- reblanket
- Slanket
Word history
From Middle English "blanket".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “blanket” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.