cabinet

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English

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/, /ˈkæb.nɪt/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkæb.ə.nət/, /ˈkæb.nət/
• (General American, weak vowel merger) Rhymes: -æbnət

Noun

cabinet (plural cabinets)

1. A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
2. A cupboard.
3. (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
4. The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
5. (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
6. A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
7. (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.
   1. (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
8. (archaic) A small chamber or private room.
9. (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
10. (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
11. (obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
12. An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.

Synonyms

• (cabinet-level agency in the executive branch): cabinet agency, cabinet department, program cabinet (rare), superagency (California)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• armoire
• chest of drawers
• salon

Anagrams

• bacinet

French

Etymology

From cabine +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.bi.nɛ/

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “cabinet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabinet.

Pronunciation

Noun

cabinet n (plural cabinete)

1. cabinet

Declension