sunday-go-to-meeting

Thân thiện

She wore her sunday-go-to-meeting dress to the community picnic.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Best or most formal, reserved for special occasions: Describes clothing that is one's finest or most formal attire, typically worn to church services on Sunday or for other important events.

Usage

• This adjective is used attributively (before a noun) to describe clothing.
• It carries a somewhat old-fashioned or regional tone, often implying traditional values and respectability.
• It specifically refers to attire considered appropriate for attending church or formal gatherings.

Examples

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used metaphorically to describe behavior or presentation that is unusually proper or formal for a given situation.
  • He put on his Sunday-go-to-meeting manners for the job interview.

Variants and Related Words

• Sunday best (noun phrase): A more common modern synonym referring to one's finest clothes.
  • The children were dressed in their Sunday best.

Synonyms

• Best
• Finest
• Formal
• Dressy

Related Idioms

• In one's Sunday best: Wearing one's finest clothes.
  • The family arrived at the ceremony in their Sunday best.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. used of clothing
   • my good clothes
   • her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes

Từ đồng nghĩa

• go-to-meeting
• Sunday-go-to-meeting