wardrobe

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Etymology

From Old Northern French warderobe, a northern variant of garderobe, from garder ‘to keep safe’ + robe.

Noun

wardrobe (plural wardrobes)

1. A cabinet in which clothes may be stored.
2. The department (or people working in that department) that obtains and stores articles of clothing for use in theatrical or motion picture productions.
3. A collection of clothing.

Synonyms

• (the piece of furniture) cupboard, closet (US), press, shrank
• (the clothing department) costume department

Derived terms

• wardrobe malfunction
• wardrobe mistress

Translations

cabinet in which clothes may be stored

• Arabic: خزانة (ar) (xizāna) f, خزانة ثوب (ar) (xizānat ṯawb) f, خزانة الملابس (ar) (xizānat al-malābis) f
• Armenian: զգեստապահարան (hy) (zgestapaharan), պահարան (hy) (paharan)
• Catalan: armari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衣櫥 (cmn), 衣橱 (cmn) (yīchú), 衣櫃 (cmn), 衣柜 (cmn) (yīguì)

• Cornish: gwiskti (kw) m, dilasva (kw) f
• Czech: šatník (cs) m, šatní skříň (cs) f, skříň (cs) f
• Danish: garderobe (da) c, garderobeskab (da) n, klædeskab (da) n
• Dutch: shrank (nl)
• Estonian: riidekapp (et)
• Faroese: skáp (fo), klædnaskáp (fo) n
• Finnish: vaatekaappi (fi)
• French: garde-robe (fr) f, armoire (fr)
• German: Garderobe (de), Kleiderschrank (de)
• Greek: ιματιοθήκη (el) (imatiothíki) f, ντουλάπα (el) (ntoulápa) f, ενδυματοθήκη (el) (endymatothíki) f
• Guernésiais: preisse f

• Hungarian: szekrény (hu), gardrób (hu)
• Irish: cófra (ga) m
• Italian: armadio (it)
• Japanese: 洋服だんす (ja) (yōfuku-dansu), ワードローブ (ja) (wādorōbu)
• Norwegian: garderobeskap (no) n
• Polish: szafa (pl) f
• Portuguese: guarda-roupas (pt), armário (pt) m
• Russian: шкаф (ru) (škaf) m, шифоньер (ru) (šifon'jér) m, гардероб (ru) (garderób) m
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: armàriu, guardaroba, alasèna, moràglas

  Gallurese Sardinian: cantaranu, guardavì

  Logudorese Sardinian: armàriu, cantaranu

• Serbo-Croatian: òrmār (sh) m
• Spanish: armario (es) m, ropero (es) m, clóset (es) m, escaparate (es) m, empotrado (es) m, placard (es) m
• Turkish: klozet (tr)
• Volapük: klotikipedöp (vo)

department in theater

• Czech: šatna (cs) f
• Danish: garderobe (da) c
• Finnish: puvusto (fi)
• Greek: ενδυματολόγιο (el) (enδimatolóγio) n, κοστούμια (el) (kostoúmia) n pl, γκαρνταρόμπα (el) (gardaróba) f

• Irish: feisteas (ga) m
• Italian: guardaroba (it)
• Polish: garderoba (pl) f
• Russian: гардероб (ru) (gard'erób) m
• Serbo-Croatian: garderóba (sh) f

collection of clothing

• Czech: šatník (cs) m
• Danish: garderobe (da) c
• Finnish: vaatekaappi (fi)
• Greek: γκαρνταρόμπα (el) (gardaróba) f
• Hungarian: gardrób (hu)
• Italian: guardaroba (it)

• Japanese: 洋服一式 (ja) (yōfuku isshiki)
• Norwegian: garderobe (no) m
• Polish: garderoba (pl) f
• Russian: гардероб (ru) (garderób) m
• Serbo-Croatian: garderóba (sh) f
• Turkish: gardrop (tr)

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• Afrikaans: klerekas (af)
• Albanian: garderobë (sq)
• Arabic: خزانة ثوب (ar)
• Basque: armairu (eu)
• Bulgarian: гардероб (bg) (garderob)
• Catalan: guarda-roba (ca)
• Dutch: garderobe (nl), kledingkast (nl)
• Esperanto: vestoŝranko (eo)
• Estonian: garderoob (et)
• Galician: guardarropa (gl)
• Hebrew: מֶלְתָּחָה (he)
• Hindi: vastragara (hi)
• Icelandic: fataskápur (is) m
• Indonesian: lemari pakaian (id)
• Korean: 옷장 (ko) (os-jang)
• Latin: armarium (la)
• Latvian: skapis (lv)
• Lithuanian: rūbinė (lt)
• Papiamentu: kashi
• Persian: ﻰﺘﺨﺭ ﺎﺠ (fa)
• Portuguese: guarda-roupa (pt)
• Romanian: garderobă (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: гардероба (sh) (garderoba), garderoba (sh)
• Slovak: garderóba (sk)
• Slovene: garderoba (sl)
• Sranan Tongo: kroskasi
• Swahili: kabati (sw)
• Swedish: garderob (sv) c
• Tagalog: aparador ng damit (tl)
• Thai: ตู้เสื้อผ้า (th) (tusueapha)
• Turkmen: garderob (tk)
• Ukrainian: гардероб (uk) (harderob)
• Uyghur: kiyimchi (ug) (kiyimchi)
• Vietnamese: tủ quần áo (vi)
• Welsh: cwpwrdd dillad (cy)
• Yiddish: garderob (yi)

See also

• armoire
• lowboy
• tallboy

Verb

wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)

1. (intransitive) To provide (a film, a customer, etc.) with clothing.
   • 1954, Billboard (11 December 1954, page 20)

     […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.

Anagrams

• drawbore