wardrobe

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
2. Ordering a clothing item online and returning it for a refund after having worn it.
3. Ordering multiple sizes of the same clothing item online and returning all but the one that fits best.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
2. (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
3. (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
4. (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
5. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
6. (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
7. A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
8. A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
9. (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
10. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
11. (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
12. (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
13. (obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
14. (obsolete) Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.

Synonyms

closet

cupboard

cabinet

🗄️

locker

clothes

almirah

press

dresser

counter

clothes closet

armoire

chest

cloakroom

clothing

coatroom

paper kite

clothespress

garderobe

coat check

wearering apparel

apparel

bookcase

checkroom

cubicle

habiliments

kitchen

lavatory

pantry

raiment

shelf

toilet

🚽

trunk

armoir

Translations

guardaroba

armoire

armadio

armario

Kleiderschrank

garde-robe

armari

guardarropa

Garderobe

armário

kleerkast

γκαρνταρόμπα

ιματιοθήκη

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: warderobe

In summary

From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French. Doublet of garderobe.

Sentences

Jeans are the only kind of trousers I have in my wardrobe .