wardrobe
/ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
Obsolete
noun
A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
noun
The building housing such a department.
noun
The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
noun
A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
Example Sentences
- "A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe."
- "Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud, Might I now and Andrea in one fight, Make vp thy wardroope Richer by a knight."
- "[…] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing."
- "Wardrobing, the act of buying a nice piece of clothing, wearing it once, and returning it, is an $8.8 billion problem for the retail industry."
- "Wardrobing is where people will order the same thing in three different sizes to see which one fits and then they return the other two, not realizing that those other two most of the time don’t go back on that retailer’s shelves."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wer- Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús Proto-Germanic *warduz Proto-Germanic *-āną Proto-Germanic *wardō Proto-Germanic *-āną Proto-Germanic *wardāną Frankish *wardēnbor. Early Medieval Latin wardō Old Northern French warder Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der. Proto-Germanic Frankish *roubader. Old French robe Old Northern French warderoubebor. Middle English warderobe English wardrobe From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French. Doublet of garderobe. By surface analysis, ward + robe.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/
- British English: /ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
removing wardrobe
standing wardrobe
walk-in wardrobe
wardrobe account
wardrobe bedstead
wardrobe beetle
wardrobe book
wardrobe dealer