Cabinet Definition
kăbə-nĭt
cabinets
noun
cabinets
A case or cupboard with drawers or shelves for holding or storing things.
A china cabinet, a medicine cabinet.
Webster's New World
The box that houses the main components of a computer, such as the central processing unit, disk drives, and expansion slots.
American Heritage
A boxlike container, usually decorated, that houses all the assembled components of a record player, radio or television, etc.
Webster's New World
A boxlike container for a speaker.
Webster's New World
A private council room.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- brain-trust
- kitchen-cabinet
- privy-council
- council of ministers
- ministry
- United States Cabinet
- department heads
- assistants
- assembly
- governing body
- bureau
- advisory council
- council
- counselors
- administrators
adjective
Suitable for storage or display in a cabinet, as because of size or decorative quality.
American Heritage
Of a kind usually displayed in cabinets.
Cabinet curios.
Webster's New World
Of or made by a cabinetmaker.
Webster's New World
Of a political cabinet.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Cabinet
Noun
Singular:
cabinet
Plural:
cabinetsOrigin of Cabinet
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French partly from diminutive of Old North French cabine gambling-room (perhaps alteration of Old French cabane small house cabin) and partly from Italian gabinetto closet, chest of drawers Old North French cabine N., sense 5, possibly from the square wooden container in which the mixer was encased
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet. In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.
From Wiktionary
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