cap
A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
Example
“The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.”
Other meanings
A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
An academic mortarboard.
A kind of
- headdress
Kinds of cap
- baseball cap
- bathing cap
- cloth cap
- overseas cap
- service cap
- shower cap
- ski cap
- watch cap
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "cæppe".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cap” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; 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.