a textile mill

Meaning

1. 1nouncountable

   A factory where cloth and fabric are made from fibers such as cotton or wool.

   Grammar: Countable: a textile mill, two textile mills.

   Patterns

   • work in a textile mill
   • a textile mill town

   The old textile mill by the river is now a museum.

   Many people in the town worked in a textile mill.

   A textile mill uses large machines to turn cotton into cloth.

Word forms

Common combinations

work in a textile mill

Her grandfather worked in a textile mill for forty years.

a textile mill town

It was once a busy textile mill town.

close a textile mill

The company closed a textile mill last year.

a cotton textile mill

They built a cotton textile mill near the port.

Synonyms and how they differ

factory

A general word for any building where goods are made; 'textile mill' is specific to cloth production.

plant

Often used for large industrial sites; 'mill' is more common for historic cloth factories.

Word family

textile noun

Cloth or fabric, or the industry that makes it.

mill noun

A building with machinery for making or processing things.

Commonly confused: a textile mill or textile mile?

Practice

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