wardrobe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wer-
Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús
Proto-Germanic *warduz
Proto-Germanic *-āną
Proto-Germanic *wardō
Proto-Germanic *-āną
Proto-Germanic *wardāną
Frankish *wardēnbor.
Early Medieval Latin wardō
Old Northern French warder
Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-?
Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der.
Proto-Germanic
Frankish *roubader.
Old French robe
Old Northern French warderoubebor.
Middle English warderobe
English 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.
Inflected forms:
form: wardrobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wardrobes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wardrobing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wardrobed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wardrobed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: The building housing such a department.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: Any closet used for storing anything.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
pos: noun
gloss: The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncommon
examples: 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.
gloss: The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
pos: noun
gloss: Any collection of clothing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: Any collection of anything.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncommon
gloss: A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To act as a wardrobe department; to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.
gloss: To order clothing online and return it for a refund after having worn it.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To order multiple sizes of the same clothing online and return all but the one that fits best.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Synonyms: costume department
bathroom
Related words: lowboy
tallboy
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: гардеро́б
roman: garderób
lang: Catalan
word: guarda-roba
lang: Czech
word: šatna
lang: Danish
word: garderobe
lang: Finnish
word: puvusto
lang: Greek
word: ενδυματολόγιο
roman: endymatológio
lang: Greek
word: κοστούμια
roman: kostoúmia
lang: Greek
word: γκαρνταρόμπα
roman: gkarntarómpa
lang: Irish
word: feisteas
lang: Italian
word: guardaroba
lang: Polish
word: garderoba
lang: Portuguese
word: guarda-roupa
lang: Portuguese
word: figurino
lang: Russian
word: гардеро́б
roman: garderób
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: гардеро́ба
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: garderóba
lang: Spanish
word: guardarropía