Definition of: gown

(goun) noun
1. A woman's dress or outer garment, especially when elaborate or costly.
2. A long and loose outer robe worn as a distinctive or official habit, as by clergymen, judges, barristers, professors, or university students, especially in England. See GENEVA GOWN.
3. Any loose outer garment or wrapper, especially when long: a dressing gown.
4. Obs. Dress; garb: the gown of humility.
5. Obs. A toga.
—v.t. & v.i. To dress in a gown. [<OF goune <Med. L gunna a loose robe]