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Webster 1913 Edition


Wardrobe

Ward′robeˊ

,
Noun.
[OE.
warderobe
, OF.
warderobe
, F.
garderobe
; of German origin. See
Ward
,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wardrobe

WARDROBE

,
Noun.
1.
A room or apartment where clothes or wearing apparel is kept.
2.
Wearing apparel in general.

Definition 2024


wardrobe

wardrobe

English

Noun

wardrobe (plural wardrobes)

  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, &c. which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
  7. A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for use storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:
      A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
  8. (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
    • 1605, 1st Pt. Jeronimo:
      Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud,
      Might I now and Andrea in one fight,
      Make vp thy wardroope
      Richer by a knight.
  9. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
  10. (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
  11. (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
  12. (obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
  13. (hunting, obsolete) Badger ****: the feces produced by badgers, particularly used in tracking game.

Synonyms

  • (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 Wikisaurus:bathroom

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Verb

wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)

  1. (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
    • 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:
      [] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.

Anagrams

References

  • "wardrobe, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1921), Oxford: Oxford University Press.