cabinet
English
/ˈkæ.bɪ.nɪt/, /ˈkæ.bɪ.nɪt/, /ˈkæ.bə.nət/
noun
Definitions
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- A cupboard.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- (politics) 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.
- (archaic) A small chamber or private room.
- (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- (dialectal) Milkshake.
- (obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
Etymology
Suffix from English cabin derived from French cabinet.
Origin
French
cabinet
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aftercabin English
- cabin English
- cabined English
- cabinetable English
- cabinetful English
- cabinetisation English
- cabinetlike English
- cabinetmaker English
- cabinetmaking English
- cabinetry English
- cabinetwork English
- cabinful English
- cabinless English
- cabinlike English
- cabinmate English
- forecabin English
- maker English
- making English
- noncabinet English
- subcabinet English
- supercabinet English
- undercabinet English
- work English
- Kabinett German
- gabinetto Italian
- cabane French
- cabine French
- cabinet French
- kabinett Norwegian Bokmål
- kabinett Norwegian Nynorsk
- caban Middle English
- cabane Middle English
- kabano Esperanto
- کابینه Persian
- kabano Ido
- kabino Ido
- kabine Turkish
- קבינט Hebrew (modern)
- kāpin Marshallese
- kebin Tok Pisin
- كبينة Moroccan Arabic
- كبينة Hijazi Arabic