towel in English: A piece of soft cloth that you use to dry your body or your hands. (noun)

Translation

A piece of soft cloth that you use to dry your body or your hands.

Word origin

From Old French toaille, which came from an old Germanic word for washing.

Gender

Pluraltowels

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A towel is the soft cloth used for drying.

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People use a towel after a bath or a swim.

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A beach towel is a big towel for the beach or pool.

dry

Not wet; with no water on it or in it.

wash

To make something clean with water, and often with soap.

bath

A long container that you fill with water to wash your whole body, and the wash itself. Americans usually call the container a bathtub.

clean

To take away dirt from something so it is no longer dirty.

water

The clear liquid that falls as rain and that people and animals drink to live.

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