wardrobe, closet, press
(noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
wardrobe
(noun) collection of clothing belonging to one person
wardrobe
(noun) collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wardrobe (plural wardrobes)
(obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
(figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
(figuratively) The building housing such a department.
(obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
(figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
(figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
(figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
(figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
(obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemism) urinating and defecating.
(hunting, obsolete) Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.
• (movable furniture for storing clothes): armoir, dresser; cupboard (UK); closet (regional US), press (Irish & Scots), shrank
• (department overseeing costumes): costume department
• (sleeping chamber): See bedroom
• (lavatory or outhouse): See bathroom
wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)
(intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
• bareword, bore draw, bore-draw, drawbore
Source: Wiktionary
Ward"robe`, n. Etym: [OE. warderobe, OF. warderobe, F. garderobe; of German origin. See Ward, v. t., 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. Milton. With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe. T. Hughes.
3. A privy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
