A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
Used in a Sentence
khaki
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for khaki.
Editorial note
A navy blue sports jacket if cooler weather else just a blue shirt and khaki trousers.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of khaki gathered in one view.
A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
Khaki green, a dull green colour.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for khaki.
noun
A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
noun
A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
noun
Khaki green, a dull green colour.
adjective
Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust.
Example sentences
A navy blue sports jacket if cooler weather else just a blue shirt and khaki trousers.
Now you're in a cubical wearing khaki pants to work spending your day on ycombinator news, dreaming about what could have been.
The suit and your dress shirts, of course, and then maybe a sports coat and your sport shirts and then maybe a khaki.
For a 'tech' company a business casual(so a khaki and a button-up long-sleeves shirts with a base white t-shirt in) has never failed me yet.
I like to shampoo my hair on my veranda in the jungle, then put on my cushy khaki pyjamas, while smoking a cheroot.
To be honest I'd think nothing of wearing back socks and grey/khaki pants.
My understanding is that one of the worst-kept secrets in Silicon Valley is that a VC and a banker are distinguishable in exactly one way: bankers don't wear khaki.
I really do know folks who love living in a subdivision, being on the community board, watering the lawn in khaki shorts, the whole nine yards.
I'm sure that character will wear khaki shorts and sandals.
A few years ago I was working for a west coast tech company (not bay area) and was regularly wearing long-sleeve button-down shirts (without a tie) with khaki pants.
For example: Pinstripe Suit with hat = Mobster Red plaid shirt suspenders Jeans and boots = lumberjack Khaki shirt and shorts = Crocodile hunter studded leather jacket + jeans/camo fatigues = Punk rocker matching tracksuit shoes and hat = Slavic youth Good news is the domain is probably the easiest part to change!
Daily is American, 2 meters tall, blond, blue-eyed, khaki-and-polo-shirted, gregarious, absolutely plain-spoken, and almost always seems to be having a great time.
Quote examples
So things like "corn umpire khaki dow heave hiatt sis steal".
Having no knowledge of either company beyond my own impressions I'd recon that Oracle is more "old-guard" employees in a much more collared shirt/blouse & khaki environment; while Pixar might lend to sneakers and t-shirts.
You're going to have a hard time making it through Hemingway if you have to reach for a dictionary every time you come across a word like "middleweight" or "khaki", even if your dictionary is online and answers your query in less than a second.
Proper noun examples
Bruce Sterling's Khaki-Greens are about due.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use khaki in a sentence?
A navy blue sports jacket if cooler weather else just a blue shirt and khaki trousers.
What does khaki mean?
A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
What part of speech is khaki?
khaki is commonly used as noun, adjective.