cabinet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet.
In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.
Base: cabin
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: cabinets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
pos: noun
gloss: A cupboard.
pos: noun
examples: ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
gloss: A museum display case.
pos: noun
examples: Here I obtained the rare and beautiful swallow-tail butterflies, Papilio aenomaus and P. liris; the males of which are quite unlike each other, and belong in fact to distinct sections of the genus, while the females are so much alike that they are undistinguishable on the wing, and to an uneducated eye equally so in the cabinet.
gloss: A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: It is a perfect cabinet of faithful, valuable, and extensive information; and it ought to have a place on the shelves of the most select and compact library, and be in the possession of every private family, as a work both of valuable reference.
gloss: The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
pos: noun
gloss: A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet?”
gloss: A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
pos: noun
gloss: In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
examples: Lincoln had a great deal of trouble with his Cabinet because some of them got it into their heads that they, and not the President, were the policy-makers. James K. Polk had the same difficulty with his Cabinet. Franklin Roosevelt never had any difficulty with his Cabinet for the simple reason that he himself, in my opinion, spent too much time doing the work that should have been delegated to the Cabinet.
gloss: In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
examples: The executive branch of Kentucky state government is structured on a program cabinet system consisting of 14 program cabinets, each headed by a secretary, who is appointed by the Governor. The program cabinets listed below and the agencies within each cabinet are designated in the statutes.
gloss: A small chamber or private room.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.
gloss: A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
gloss: Milkshake.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: One of Rhode Island's most famous beverages is the Awful Awful, an enormous 32-ounce, rich, creamy milk shake sold at the Newport Creamery stores, a soda fountain and casual restaurant chain. This ultra-thick cabinet is "awful big and awful good," thus the name.
gloss: A hut; a cottage; a small house.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, / The rural song of careful Colinet.
gloss: An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
pos: noun
Related words: armoire
chest of drawers
salon
Derived words: animal cabinet
ante-cabinet
bathroom cabinet
cabinetable
cabinet agency
cabinet card
cabinet department
cabinet edition
cabineteer
cabinet file
cabinetful
cabinetisation
cabinetlike
cabinet maker
cabinetmaker
cabinetmaking
cabinet making
cabinet minister
cabinet noir
cabinet of curiosities
cabinet particulier
cabinet piano
cabinet pianoforte
cabinet pudding
cabinetry
cabinet saw
cabinetted
cabinet window
cabinetwork
cabinetworker
cabinetworking
china cabinet
cocktail cabinet
coffee cabinet
display cabinet
drinks cabinet
file cabinet
filing cabinet
fire cabinet
inner cabinet
kitchen cabinet
loudspeaker cabinet
medicine cabinet
minority cabinet
noncabinet
program cabinet
shadow cabinet
Shadow Cabinet
Shaker cabinet
spirit cabinet
subcabinet
supercabinet
undercabinet
war cabinet
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: kabinet
lang: Belarusian
word: кабіне́т
roman: kabinjét
lang: Bulgarian
word: кабине́т
roman: kabinét
lang: Burmese
word: ကက်ဗိနက်
roman: kakbi.nak
lang: Burmese
word: ဝန်ကြီးအဖွဲ့
roman: wankri:a.hpwai.
lang: Catalan
word: gabinet
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 內閣 /内阁
roman: nèigé
lang: Czech
word: kabinet
lang: Dutch
word: kabinet
lang: Esperanto
word: kabineto
lang: Finnish
word: hallitus
lang: French
word: cabinet
lang: Georgian
word: კაბინეტი
roman: ḳabineṭi
lang: Georgian
word: მინისტრთა კაბინეტი
roman: minisṭrta ḳabineṭi
lang: Georgian
word: მინისტრთა საბჭო
roman: minisṭrta sabč̣o
lang: Georgian
word: მთავრობა
roman: mtavroba
lang: German
word: Kabinett
lang: German
word: Ministerrat
lang: German
word: Regierung
lang: German
word: Regierungsmannschaft
lang: Greek
word: υπουργικό συμβούλιο
roman: ypourgikó symvoúlio
lang: Hebrew
word: קבינט
roman: kabinet
lang: Hindi
word: मंत्रिमंडल
roman: mantrimaṇḍal
lang: Indonesian
word: kabinet
lang: Indonesian
word: dewan menteri
lang: Irish
word: airí rialtais
lang: Irish
word: comh-aireacht
lang: Italian
word: gabinetto
lang: Italian
word: consiglio dei ministri
lang: Japanese
word: 内閣
roman: naikaku
lang: Khmer
word: គណៈរដ្ឋមន្ត្រី
roman: kônărôthâmôntrei
lang: Khmer
word: កាប៊ីណេត៍
roman: kabinét
lang: Korean
word: 내각
roman: naegak
lang: Latvian
word: kabinets
lang: Latvian
word: skapis
lang: Lithuanian
word: kambarëlis
lang: Lithuanian
word: kabinetas
lang: Malay
word: kabinet
lang: Malay
word: jemaah menteri
lang: Maltese
word: gabinet
lang: Manx
word: cabnaid
lang: Māori
word: kāhui minita
lang: Māori
word: komiti minita
lang: Māori
word: rūnanga o te kāwanatanga
lang: Māori
word: kapinete
lang: Mongolian
word: шїїгээ
roman: šüügee
lang: Occitan
word: gabinet
lang: Persian
word: کابینه
roman: kâbine
lang: Polish
word: rząd
lang: Polish
word: rada ministrów
lang: Polish
word: gabinet
lang: Portuguese
word: gabinete
lang: Russian
word: кабине́т
roman: kabinét
lang: Russian
word: сове́т мини́стров
roman: sovét minístrov
lang: Sicilian
word: cabbinettu
lang: Slovene
word: kabinet
lang: Spanish
word: gabinete
lang: Swahili
word: kabati
lang: Swedish
word: kabinett
lang: Swedish
word: regering
lang: Swedish
word: ministär
lang: Swedish
word: råd
lang: Tagalog
word: gabinete
lang: Thai
word: คณะรัฐมนตรี
roman: ká-ná-rát-tà-mon-dtrii
lang: Turkish
word: kabine
lang: Ukrainian
word: кабіне́т
roman: kabinét
lang: Vietnamese
word: nội các
lang: Welsh
word: cabinet