WARDROBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wardrobe mean? 

• WARDROBE (noun)
  The noun WARDROBE has 3 senses:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: WARDROBE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARDROBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

closet; press; wardrobe

Hypernyms ("wardrobe" is a kind of...):

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

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

armoire (a large wardrobe or cabinet; originally used for storing weapons)

clothes closet; clothespress (a closet where clothes are stored)

coat closet (a closet for storing outerwear)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Collection of clothing belonging to one person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wardrobe" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Holonyms ("wardrobe" is a part of...):

article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wardrobe" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Holonyms ("wardrobe" is a part of...):

costume (the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball)

 Context examples 

“I fear, Charles, that Roddy’s wardrobe is country-made,” said my mother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Now I'm ready," said Amy, shutting the wardrobe and taking a piece of paper out of her pocket.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You may want to get your wardrobe ready, dear Pisces—you will be joyfully stepping out to enjoy a remarkable holiday season.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By the same brilliant reasoning, every man’s body is to be found in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe.

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

If anyone were forced to conceal himself in this room he must do it there, since the bed is too low and the wardrobe too shallow.

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

I'll furnish my own wardrobe out of that money, and you shall give me nothing but—Well, but what?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I sat and pondered awhile, and then some thought occurred to me, and I made search of my portmanteau and in the wardrobe where I had placed my clothes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In a wardrobe were many green dresses, made of silk and satin and velvet; and all of them fitted Dorothy exactly.

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

I was still looking rather ruefully after the rapidly disappearing luggage-van which contained my wardrobe, when Holmes pulled my sleeve and pointed up the line.

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

I began to picture to myself, as a scrap of newspaper intelligence, my being found dead in a day or two, under some hedge; and I trudged on miserably, though as fast as I could, until I happened to pass a little shop, where it was written up that ladies' and gentlemen's wardrobes were bought, and that the best price was given for rags, bones, and kitchen-stuff.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)