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ワンピース
ワンピース
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one-piece dress
ワンピース, “one-piece dress”, is borrowed from English “one-piece”.
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In a sentence
このワンピースはいくらですか。
How much is this dress?
このワンピースは、君の雰囲気にぴったりだね。
This dress is YOU.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Borrowed from English one-piece.”
Source: Wiktionary: ワンピース (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.