cabinet

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From cabin +‎ -et, influenced by French cabinet. In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkæbɪnɪt/

Noun

Wikipedia cabinet (plural cabinets)

1. A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
2. (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton (2005), p. 19,

     Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet?”

3. A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
4. (politics, often capitalized) 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.
5. (archaic) A small chamber or private room.
6. (often capitalized) a collection of art or ethnographic objects
7. (dialectal, Rhode Island) milkshake

Related terms

• pie safe

Translations

A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall

• Afrikaans: kabinet (af)
• Armenian: պահարան (hy) (paharan)
• Bulgarian: стенен шкаф (bg) (stenen škaf)
• Catalan: armari (ca) m
• French: armoire (fr) f
• German: Schrank (de) n
• Italian: armadio (it) m, guardaroba (it) m
• Japanese: キャビネット (ja) (kyabinetto)

• Khmer: ទូ (km) (tuu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کابینه‌ت

• Maltese: armarju (mt) m
• Portuguese: armário (pt) m
• Russian: кабинет (ru) (kabinét) m, шкаф (ru) (škaf) m, стенной шкаф (ru) (stennój škaf) m
• Spanish: armario (es) m

A group of advisors to a government or business entity

• Afrikaans: kabinet (af)
• Albanian: kabinet (sq) m
• Catalan: gabinet (ca) m
• Dutch: kabinet (nl)
• Finnish: hallitus (fi)
• French: cabinet (fr) m
• German: Kabinett (de) n
• Hebrew: קבינט (he) (kabinet) m
• Italian: consiglio (it) m
• Japanese: キャビネット (ja) (kyabinetto), 内閣 (ja) (ないかく, naikaku) (in politics)

• Papiamentu: kabinèt
• Quechua: suntur (qu)
• Russian: кабинет (ru) (kabinét) m
• Somali: letlole (so)
• Tagalog: gabinete (tl)
• Ukrainian: кабінет (uk) (kabinet) n
• Zulu: ikhabinethe (zu)

the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy

• Afrikaans: kabinet (af)
• Bulgarian: кабинет (bg) (kabinét) m
• Catalan: gabinet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內閣 (cmn), 内阁 (cmn) (nèigé)

• Czech: kabinet (cs)
• Finnish: hallitus (fi)
• French: cabinet (fr) m
• German: Kabinett (de) n
• Greek: υπουργικό συμβούλιο (el) (ypourgikó symvoúlio) n
• Hebrew: קבינט (he) (kabinet) m
• Italian: gabinetto (it) m
• Japanese: 内閣 (ja) (ないかく, naikaku)
• Khmer: គណៈរដ្ឋមន្ត្រី (km) (kea’na’ roat mʊəntrəy)

• Korean: 내각 (ko) (naegak) (內閣 (ko))
• Latvian: kabinets (lv) m, skapis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kambarëlis (lt) m, kabinetas (lt) f
• Malay: kabinet (ms)
• Maltese: gabinet (mt) m
• Manx: cabnaid (gv)
• Maori: pouaka whakaputu (mi)
• Mongolian: шїїгээ (mn) (shїїgee)
• Polish: rząd (pl) m, rada ministrów (pl) f, gabinet (pl) m
• Russian: кабинет (ru) (kabinét) m, совет министров (ru) (sovét minístrov) m
• Swahili: kabati (sw)
• Vietnamese: nội các (vi) (內閣 (vi))

See also

• armoire
• kitchen cabinet
• salon

Anagrams

• bacinet

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French

Etymology

From Italian gabinetto.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /kabinɛ/

Noun

cabinet m (plural cabinets)

1. (archaic) a study
2. an office, a surgery
3. a cabinet
4. a cabinet of government advisors
5. (in the plural) the toilet, lavatory