wardrobe
NounUS[wawr-drohb]/ˈwɔrˌdroʊb/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothesSynonyms: closetpressType of furniture, piece of furnitureKinds armoire, clothes closet, coat closet
- collection of clothing belonging to one personType of collection, aggregationPart of clothing, article of clothing
- collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical companyType of collection, aggregationPart of costume
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Translations
Noun movable furniture for storing clothes
- Spanish
- ropero
- French
- armoire
- German
- Kleiderschrank
- Italian
- armadio
- Portuguese
- guarda-roupa
- Turkish
- gardırop
- Russian
- платяно́й шкаф platjanój škaf
- Arabic
- خِزَانَة اَلْمَلَابِس ḵizānat al-malābis
- Chinese
- 衣橱 yīchú
- Japanese
- 洋服だんす yōfukudansu
32 more languages
- Dutch
- kledingkast
- Polish
- szafa
- Swedish
- garderob
- Greek
- ντουλάπα ntoulápa
- Korean
- 옷장 otjang
- Indonesian
- lemari pakaian
- Vietnamese
- tủ quần áo
- Hungarian
- ruhásszekrény
- Portuguese (PT)
- guarda-roupa
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 衣櫥 yīchú
- Albanian
- gardërobë
- Catalan
- armari
- Czech
- šatník
- Danish
- klædeskab
- Esperanto
- vestoŝranko
- Estonian
- riidekapp
- Finnish
- vaatekaappi
- Georgian
- ტანსაცმლის კარადა ṭansacmlis ḳarada
- Hebrew
- מֶלְתָּחָה meltakhá
- Icelandic
- fataskápur
- Kurdish
- xizane
- Latvian
- drēbju skapis
- Lithuanian
- drabužių spinta
- Norwegian
- garderobeskap
- Romanian
- șifonier
- Scottish Gaelic
- preas-aodaich
- Serbo-Croatian
- ormar
- Slovak
- šatník
- Slovenian
- garderobna omara
- Swahili
- kabati la nguo
- Welsh
- cwpwrdd dillad
- Yiddish
- אַלמער almer
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ward′robe′ noun
Origin: OE. warderobe, OF. warderobe, F. garderobe; of German origin. See Ward, transitive verb, and Robe.
1. A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
2. Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.
Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear.— John Milton
With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe.— Thomas Hughes
3. A privy. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54