1. [noun] A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
2. [noun] The pattern associated with such material.
3. [noun] An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
4. [noun] Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
5. [adjective] Having a pattern like a tartan.
6. [adjective] (humorous) Scottish.
7. [verb] (transitive) To clothe in tartan.
8. [noun] A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.
9. [noun] A cloth having a crisscross design.