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- Dictionarycloak/kləʊk/
noun
- 1. a sleeveless outdoor overgarment that hangs loosely from the shoulders: "he threw his cloak about him" Similar
- 2. a cloakroom: British "ground-floor accommodation comprises hall, cloaks, lounge, kitchen"
verb
- 1. dress in a cloak: "they sat cloaked and hooded"
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something that hides, covers, or keeps something else secret: cloak for The restaurant he owned was just a cloak for (= hid) his drug-dealing activities. under cloak of They left the house under cloak of darkness. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. cloak. verb [ T ]
The meaning of CLOAK is a loose outer garment. How to use cloak in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Cloak.
something that hides, covers, or keeps something else secret: cloak for The restaurant he owned was just a cloak for (= hid) his drug-dealing activities. under cloak of They left the house under cloak of darkness. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. cloak.
noun. a loose outer garment, as a cape or coat. something that covers or conceals; disguise; pretense: He conducts his affairs under a cloak of secrecy. Synonyms: veil, mask, cover. verb (used with object) to cover with or as if with a cloak: She arrived at the opera cloaked in green velvet. to hide; conceal: The mission was cloaked in mystery.
A cloak is anything that conceals or hides something, like an over-sized, dark raincoat you wear when you don't want your friends to see you're going to the movies without them. As a noun, a cloak is usually a loose piece of clothing that you wear over your other clothes, like a cape or a gown.
1. A long, loose outer garment, usually having a hood and no sleeves. 2. Something that covers or conceals: a cloak of secrecy. tr.v. cloaked, cloak·ing, cloaks. To cover or conceal with a cloak or something that acts like a cloak: mist that cloaks the mountains. See Synonyms at disguise, hide 1.
A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.