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Definition: Wardrobe |
WardrobeNoun1. A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes. 2. Collection of clothing belonging to one person. 3. Collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wardrobe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Wardrobe \Ward"robe`\, noun. [from Old English expression warderobe, Old French warderobe, French garderobe; of German origin. See Ward, transitive verb, and Robe.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of your wardrobe, denotes that your fortune will be endangered by your attempts to appear richer than you are. If you imagine you have a scant wardrobe, you will seek association with strangers. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: WardrobeSynonyms: closet (n), press (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Noun: clothing, investment; covering; dress, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament, apparel, wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things; underclothes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wardrobe |
| English words defined with "wardrobe": actor's assistant, armoire ♦ dresser ♦ whole. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wardrobe": artist consultant, ARTIST'S MANAGER, artist's representative ♦ Charing Cross ♦ INSTRUCTOR, MODELING ♦ MASTER OF THE WARDROBE ♦ personal agent, personal manager ♦ SUPERVISOR, COSTUMING ♦ wardrobe people, WARDROBE-SPECIALTY WORKER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Uncle Nick-Nack's winter wardrobe. Uncle Nick-Nack's summer wardrobe (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson) I had it all. I had a stereo that was very decent, a wardrobe that was getting very respectable (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Does Barry Manilow know you raided his wardrobe closet (The Breakfast Club ; writing credit: John Hughes) You do have a very full wardrobe as it is. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Winning improves your wardrobe. (Raw Deal; writing credit: Gary DeVore; Sergio Donati) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wardrobe (1969) Max in a Wardrobe (1912) The Extensive Wardrobe (1902) | |
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 | U.S. Army. Camp Hospital, Camp Bragg, N.C. : Interior view- Nurses Quarters, wardrobe and table. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Arrives at ACORN Training Detachment, Port Hueneme, California, with a wardrobe and no place to stow it, 15 October 1943. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "RedBoxes" by Olivia Castells Commentary: "Red boxes on the wardrobe." | "Drawer" by Ibon San Martin Commentary: "Drawers of my wardrobe ." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When I was happier, one would only have had to look into my wardrobe to see that I was not a disorderly woman |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A little boy had been taught geography by an old woman who kept two brushes in her wardrobe. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Ireland | A travel umbrella, rainwear and sturdy walking shoes should also be included in the wardrobe since there is occasional light rain ("liquid sunshine") and many "soft" days. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Everywhere you look, cooperation is as rare as a tube top in Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe. |
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| "Wardrobe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wardrobe" is used about 965 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 965 | 7,550 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wardrobe". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Sarsechim | N/A | Biblical | Master of the wardrobe |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "wardrobe": wardrobe mistress ♦ wardrobe people ♦ wardrobe trunk. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wardrobe": wardrobe-keepers, wardrobe-room, wardrobe-woman. | |
Ending with "wardrobe": combi-wardrobe, sail-wardrobe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "wardrobe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | veshjet, rroba (clothes, dress, duds, laundry, raiment, things, tog, toggery, togs, vesture), garderobë (checking-room, checkroom, cloak-room), dollap rrobash (cupboard). (various references) | |
Arabic | غرفة الملابس, خزانة الثياب, خزانة (cabinet, case, closet, cupboard, locker, safe deposit), دائرة الملابس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гардероб (cloakroom, left-luggage-office), дрешник. (various references) | |
Chinese | 衣橱, 衣廚 , 柜 (cabinet, cupboard, Salix multinervis), 櫃 (cabinet, cupboard). (various references) | |
Czech | skříň, garderoba, šatník (clothes-press). (various references) | |
Danish | klaedeskab, garderobeskab. (various references) | |
Dutch | kleerkast (clothes-press), hangkast (clothes-press). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vestoŝranko (clothes-press). (various references) | |
Farsi | موجودی لباس , قفسه (Cabinet, Cupboard), جارختی (Costumer, Hanger), اشکاف (Buffet). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaatevarasto (stock of clothing), vaatekomero (clothes closet), vaatekaappi, puvusto, kaappi (bookcase, cabinet, closet, cupboard, sideboard). (various references) | |
French | penderie, garde-robe. (various references) | |
German | Kleiderschrank, Garderobe (check, checkroom, cloakroom, clothes, dressing room, hall stand, warderobe). (various references) | |
Greek | γκαρνταρόμπα (cloakroom), ιματιοθήκη (locker), ντουλάπα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלתחה (checkroom, cloakroom, vestry), ארון בגדים (dresser). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szekrény (armoire, body, cabinet, case, chest, closet, cupboard, press, sideboard), ruhatár (checking-room, checkroom, cloakroom, cloak-room), ruhaszekrény, gardrób. (various references) | |
Italian | vestiario (cloakroom, clothes, clothing), guardaroba (checkroom, cloakroom, linen-room), armadio (cabinet, closet, cupboard, sideboard). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 衣装箪笥 , ワーク取り付け台 (fixtures, warning, warp, word, word processor, word-processor, worst), 戸棚 (closet, cupboard, locker). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ワードローブ , いしょうだんす, とだな (closet, cupboard, locker). (various references) | |
Korean | 옷장 (Closet). (various references) | |
Manx | prest, jeshaghan. (various references) | |
Norwegian | garderobe. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ardrobeway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarda-roupa (cloakroom, clothes-press). (various references) | |
Romanian | garderobã (cloakroom, cloak-room, clothes), garderob, dulap (board, cabinet, case, chest, closet, cupboard, glass case, plank, press, sideboard, swing boat), şifonier (chiffonier). (various references) | |
Russian | гардероб (checking-room, checkroom, check-room, cloakroom, cloak-room, coatroom). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | orman (cabinet, chest, cuddy, locker), garderoba (checking-room, checkroom, clipping room, cloakroom, cloak-room, left-luggage-office, weather-wear). (various references) | |
Spanish | ropero (closet, clothier, press), armario ropero (clothes-press). (various references) | |
Sranan | kroskasi (clothes-press). (various references) | |
Swedish | garderob (checkroom, cloakroom, clothes, clothes closet, clothes-press), klädskåp (clothes-press, press, wardrope). (various references) | |
Turkish | giysiler (things), gardrop (cloakroom), elbise dolabı (clothespress), dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cuddy, cupboard, dodge, dope, doubling, flimflam, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, ramp, repository, ruse, sell, trap, water wheel, wile). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юkaf (r) (cupboard). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гардеробна (check room, dressing room), гардероб (checking-room, cloak-room). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tủ quần áo quần áo. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwardrob. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vestarium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Chronicles Chapter 34, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eporeuqh celkiaV kai oiV eipen o basileuV proV oldan thn profhtin gunaika sellhm uiou qakouaq uiou cellhV fulassousan taV stolaV kai auth katwkei en ierousalhm en masana kai elalhsan auth kata tauta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Abiit igitur Helcias et hii qui simul a rege missi fuerant ad Holdan propheten uxorem Sellum filii Thecuath filii Hasra custodis vestium quae habitabat Hierusalem in secunda et locuti sunt ei verba quae supra narravimus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne wente Elchias, and thes that to gider of the kyng weren sent, to Oldam, prophetisse, wijf of Sellum, sone of Thecuath, sone of Azia, keper of the clothes, `the whiche dwellide in Jerusalem in `the secounde wallynge, and thei speekyn to hyr the wordis, that we han aboue told. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spoke to her to that effect. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So Hilkiah, and those whom the king sent, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the robes (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town); and they had talk with her about this thing. |
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| Language | 2 Chronicles Chapter 34, Verse 22 |
| Croatian | Hilkija s kraljevim ljudima ode proroèici Huldi, ženi Šaluma, Tokhatova sina, sina Hasre, èuvara odjeæe; ona je živjela u Jeruzalemu, u novom gradu. Kad joj to kazaše, |
| Danish | Hilkija og de andre, Kongen sendte af Sted, gik da hen og talte derom med Profetinden Hulda, som var gift med Sjallum, Opsynsmanden over Tøjet, en Søn af Hasras Søn Tokhat, og som boede i Jerusalem i den nye Bydel. |
| Dutch | Toen ging Hilkia henen, en die des konings waren, tot de profetes Hulda, de huisvrouw van Sallum, den zoon van Tokhath, den zoon van Hasra, den klederbewaarder. Zij nu woonde te Jeruzalem in het tweede deel; en zij spraken zulks tot haar. |
| Finnish | Niin Hilkia ynnä ne muut, jotka kuningas määräsi, menivät naisprofeetta Huldan tykö, joka oli vaatevaraston hoitajan Sallumin, Tokhatin pojan, Hasran pojanpojan, vaimo ja asui Jerusalemissa, toisessa kaupunginosassa. Ja he puhuivat hänelle, niinkuin edellä mainittiin. |
| French | Hilkija et ceux qu`avait désignés le roi allèrent auprès de la prophétesse Hulda, femme de Schallum, fils de Thokehath, fils de Hasra, gardien des vêtements. Elle habitait à Jérusalem, dans l`autre quartier de la ville. Après qu`ils eurent exprimé ce qu`ils avaient à lui dire, |
| German | Da ging Hilkia hin samt den andern, die der König gesandt hatte, zu der Prophetin Hulda, dem Weibe Sallums, des Sohnes Thokehaths, des Sohnes Hasras, des Kleiderhüters, die zu Jerusalem wohnte im andern Teil, und redeten solches mit ihr. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Maka pergilah Hilkia, Ahikam, Abdon, Safan dan Asaya meminta petunjuk kepada seorang wanita bernama Hulda. Ia seorang nabi yang tinggal di perkampungan baru di Yerusalem. Suaminya bernama Salum anak Tikwa, cucu Harhas. Ia pengurus pakaian ibadat di Rumah TUHAN. Setelah Hulda mendengar keterangan mereka, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, maka pergilah Hilkia serta dengan suruhan baginda itu mendapatkan nabiah Hulda, bini Salum bin Tokhat bin Hasra, penunggu pakaian itu. Maka duduklah ia di Yeruzalem di dalam pertengahan negeri, lalu disampaikannyalah titah itu kepadanya. |
| Maori | Heoi haere ana a Hirikia ratou ko a te kingi i whakarite ai, ki a Hurura ki te wahine poropiti, he wahine ia na Harumu, tama a Tokohata, tama a Haharaha, kaitiaki kakahu; i Hiruharama hoki taua wahine e noho ana, i te wahi tuarua. Na korerotia a na enei mea e ratou ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | Så gikk Hilkias og de andre som kongen sendte avsted, til profetinnen Hulda, hustru til klædeskammer-vokteren Sallum, sønn av Tokhat, Kasras sønn; hun bodde i Jerusalem i den annen bydel; og de talte med henne således som det var dem pålagt. |
| Rumanian | Hilchia wi cei trimiwi de kmpqrat s`au dus la proorociya Hulda, nevasta lui Walum, fiul lui Tochehat, fiul lui Hasra, strqjerul vewmintelor. Ea locuia la Ierusalim, kn cealaltq mahala a cetqyii. Dupqce au spus ce aveau de spus, |
| Spanish | Entonces Hilquías y los hombres del rey fueron a la profetisa Hulda, esposa de Salum hijo de Ticva, hijo de Jarjas, guarda de las vestiduras, la cual vivía en el Segundo Barrio de Jerusalén; y hablaron con ella de este asunto. |
| Swedish | Då gick Hilkia, tillika med andra som konungen sände åstad, till profetissan Hulda, hustru åt Sallum, klädkammarvaktaren, som var son till Tokehat, Hasras son; hon bodde i Jerusalem, i Nya staden. Och de talade med henne såsom dem bjudet var. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wardrobe": wardrobes. (additional references) | |
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"Wardrobe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardroe, wadrobe, warderobe, waredrobe, wordrobe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wardrobe" (pronounced wô"rdrō'b) |
| 3 | -r ō' b | bathrobe, microbe. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: drawbore. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-o-r-r-w" | |
-1 letter: arbored, arrowed, boarder, broader, reboard. | |
-2 letters: adorer, barred, barrow, border, brawer, browed, drawer, redowa, redraw, reward, reword, roared, warder, warred. | |
-3 letters: abode, adobe, adore, arbor, ardeb, ardor, arrow, barde, bared, barer, barre, beard, board, bored, borer, bowed, bower, bread, broad, darer, debar, dewar, dobra, dower, drear, oared, orbed, order, oread, rared, rawer, rebar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-o-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: drawbores, wardrobes. | |
+2 letters: crowbarred. | |
+3 letters: bladderwort, snowboarder. | |
+4 letters: bladderworts, snowboarders, weatherboard. | |
+5 letters: weatherboards, wheelbarrowed. | |
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