wardrobe
/ˈwɔːdɹəʊb//ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/
wardrobe noun: a room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
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Noun
wardrobe (plural wardrobes)
- A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
- A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
- The building housing such a department.
- Any closet used for storing anything.
- A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
- 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 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.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
- Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
- 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.1605, 1st Pt. Jeronimo
- Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud,
- The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
- Any collection of clothing.
- Any collection of anything.
- A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
- Synonyms:
- bedroom
- Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.
Verb
wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)
- To act as a wardrobe department; to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
- […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.1954 December 11, Billboard, page 20
- To order clothing online and return it for a refund after having worn it.
- Wardrobing, the act of buying a nice piece of clothing, wearing it once, and returning it, is an $8.8 billion problem for the retail industry.2015, Adam Toporek, Be Your Customer's Hero, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 195
- To order multiple sizes of the same clothing online and return all but the one that fits best.
- Wardrobing is where people will order the same thing in three different sizes to see which one fits and then they return the other two, not realizing that those other two most of the time don’t go back on that retailer’s shelves.2022 January 28, Katie Tarasov, “What really happens to Amazon returns”, in CNBC
wardrobe meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
wardrobe in Hindi
- movable furniture for storing clothes
- अलमारी almārī
wardrobe in Tamil
- movable furniture for storing clothes
- அலமாரி alamāri
wardrobe in Urdu
- movable furniture for storing clothes
- اَلْماری almārī
wardrobe in Bengali
- movable furniture for storing clothes
- পোশাক pōśak, আলমারি almari
More languagesFewer languages
- wardrobe in Malayalam
- അലമാരി alamāri
- wardrobe in Kannada
- ಉಡುಪುಗಳ ಅರೆವರಸೆ, ಉಡುಪು ಕಪಾಟು, ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಬೀರು, ಉಡುಪುಗಳ ದಾಸ್ತಾನು
- wardrobe in Gujarati
- આલમારી ālmārī
- wardrobe in Pashto
- المارۍ almārəy
- wardrobe in Arabic
- خِزَانَة ḵizāna, خِزَانَة ثَوْب ḵizānat ṯawb, خِزَانَة اَلْمَلَابِس ḵizānat al-malābis
- wardrobe in Malay
- almari
- wardrobe in Indonesian
- lemari pakaian
- wardrobe in Thai
- ตู้ dtûu, ตู้เสื้อผ้า dtûu-sʉ̂ʉa-pâa
- wardrobe in Vietnamese
- tủ áo, quần áo, tủ quần áo
Examples of wardrobe in a sentence
- Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.
- Her wardrobe is huge. She has three racks for blazers alone.
- The wardrobe is the biggy – we'd better move that first.
Synonyms of wardrobe
Forms of wardrobe
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wardrobes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wardrobes |
| present participle | wardrobing |
| past participle | wardrobed |
| past | wardrobed |
Origin of wardrobe
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. By surface analysis, ward + robe.
Words formed from wardrobe
- removing wardrobe
- standing wardrobe
- walk-in wardrobe
- wardrobe account
- wardrobe bedstead
- wardrobe beetle
- wardrobe book
- wardrobe dealer
- wardrobe keeper
- wardrobe maid
- wardrobe malfunction
- wardrobe man
- wardrobe master
- wardrobe mistress
- wardrobe room
- wardrobe stuff
- wardrobe trunk
- wardrobe woman
Phrases with wardrobe
Questions about wardrobe
- What does wardrobe mean?
- Wardrobe means a room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
- What is wardrobe in Hindi?
- Wardrobe in Hindi is अलमारी (almārī). See Wardrobe meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wardrobe?
- Wardrobe can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wardrobe?
- Wardrobe is pronounced /ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wardrobe?
- The plural of wardrobe is wardrobes.
Words near wardrobe in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wardrobe (page history and authors); അലമാരി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); wardrobe (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); આલમારી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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