blanket
blanket
noun
/ˈblæŋkɪt/
1 a large cover, often made of wool, used especially on beds to keep people warm
It’s cold tonight—can I have another blanket?
The baby was wrapped in a blanket
She pulled the blanket up and went to sleep.
They shivered under their thin blankets..
SEE ALSO electric blanket
Collocations
adjective
heavy
thick
thin
verb + blanket
cover somebody with
[drape over somebody/​something
tuck around somebody
preposition
beneath a/​the blanket
under a/​the blanket
phrases
a wet blanket
2 usually singular blanket of something a thick layer or mass of something
a blanket of fog/snow/cloud
(figurative) The trial was conducted under a blanket of secrecy.
The sun was breaking through the blanket of mist.
The walls were covered in blankets of ivy.
SEE ALSO pigs in blankets, wet blanket
TOPICS Weather C1
Word Origin
Middle English (denoting undyed woollen cloth): via Old Northern French from Old French blanc ‘white’, ultimately of Germanic origin.