Meanings
- pluralplural onlyAn article of clothing covering each leg separately, that covers the area from the waist to the ankle.
But the truth was, her pantaloons came down to her ankles, and when she got the leg of one caught in a twig, she nearly fainted[.]
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 191 more example
But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer’s not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
- pluralplural of pantaloon
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*ph₂énts?
- Proto-Hellenic*pánts
- Ancient Greekπᾶς (pâs)
- Ancient Greekἔλεος (éleos)
- Ancient Greekἐλεέω (eleéō)
- Ancient Greekἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn)
- Ancient GreekΠαντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)
- ItalianPantalone
- Frenchpantalon
- Englishpantaloon
- Englishpantaloons
From pantaloon.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan calces, pantalons
- calcesan article of clothing covering each leg separately
- pantalonsan article of clothing covering each leg separately
Czech dlouhé kalhoty, hatě
- dlouhé kalhotyan article of clothing covering each leg separately
- hatěan article of clothing covering each leg separately
Greek παντελόνι
- παντελόνι (pantelóni)an article of clothing covering each leg separately
Malay pantelon
- pantelonan article of clothing covering each leg separately
Polish pantalony
- pantalonyan article of clothing covering each leg separately
Cite this entry
pantaloons. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pantaloons
“pantaloons.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pantaloons. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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