leather
A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing; often denotes leather from cattle when no qualifier specifies otherwise.
Other meanings
A piece of the above used for polishing.
(plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
A kind of
- animal skin
Kinds of leather
- grain
- buff
- calf
- white leather
- crushed leather
- deerskin
- kid
- patent leather
Related words
- alligator leather
- antileather
- as ever trod shoe leather
- as ever trod shoe-leather
- chamois leather
- Corinthian leather
- Dongola leather
- fair leather
- fruit leather
- hell-bent for leather
- hell for leather
- hemlock leather
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "leþer".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “leather” 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.