CHEST OF DRAWERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chest of drawers mean? 

• CHEST OF DRAWERS (noun)
  The noun CHEST OF DRAWERS has 1 sense:

1. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

  Familiarity information: CHEST OF DRAWERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEST OF DRAWERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bureau; chest; chest of drawers; dresser

Hypernyms ("chest of drawers" is a kind of...):

article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)

Meronyms (parts of "chest of drawers"):

drawer (a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out)

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chest of drawers"):

chiffonier; commode (a tall elegant chest of drawers)

highboy; tallboy (a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs)

lowboy (a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs)

 Context examples 

There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones empty and open, the lower one locked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The younger man sat over yonder; he knocked his ash off against the chest of drawers.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Various ingenious arrangements he had made, for the disguise of his chest of drawers, and the accommodation of his boots, his shaving-glass, and so forth, particularly impressed themselves upon me, as evidences of the same Traddles who used to make models of elephants' dens in writing-paper to put flies in; and to comfort himself under ill usage, with the memorable works of art I have so often mentioned.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Above, a chamber of the same dimensions as the kitchen, with a deal bedstead and chest of drawers; small, yet too large to be filled with my scanty wardrobe: though the kindness of my gentle and generous friends has increased that, by a modest stock of such things as are necessary.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the left-hand side of the window.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a table, and a Dutch clock, and a chest of drawers, and on the chest of drawers there was a tea-tray with a painting on it of a lady with a parasol, taking a walk with a military-looking child who was trundling a hoop.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was a chest of drawers with an escritoire top, for Uriah to read or write at of an evening; there was Uriah's blue bag lying down and vomiting papers; there was a company of Uriah's books commanded by Mr. Tidd; there was a corner cupboard: and there were the usual articles of furniture.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)