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wardrobe

ward·robe
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [wawr-drohb]
    • /ˈwɔr droʊb/
    • /ˈwɔː.drəʊb/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [wawr-drohb]
    • /ˈwɔr droʊb/

Definitions of wardrobe word

  • noun wardrobe a stock of clothes or costumes, as of a person or of a theatrical company. 1
  • noun wardrobe a piece of furniture for holding clothes, now usually a tall, upright case fitted with hooks, shelves, etc. 1
  • noun wardrobe a room or place in which to keep clothes or costumes. 1
  • noun wardrobe the department of a royal or other great household charged with the care of wearing apparel. 1
  • noun wardrobe wardrobe trunk. 1
  • noun wardrobe a department in a motion-picture or television studio in charge of supplying and maintaining costumes: Report to wardrobe right after lunch. 1

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Origin of wardrobe

First appearance:

before 1250
One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English warderobe < Anglo-French. See ward (v.), robe

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Wardrobe

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

wardrobe popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

wardrobe usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for wardrobe

noun wardrobe

  • clothes — Clothes are the things that people wear, such as shirts, coats, trousers, and dresses.
  • clothing — Clothing is the things that people wear.
  • attire — Your attire is the clothes you are wearing.
  • apparel — Apparel means clothes, especially formal clothes worn on an important occasion.
  • gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.

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