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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A tall cabinet, closet, or small room built to hold clothes.
  2. n. Garments considered as a group, especially all the articles of clothing that belong to one person.
  3. n. The costumes belonging to a theater or theatrical troupe.
  4. n. The place in which theatrical costumes are kept.
  5. n. The department in charge of wearing apparel, jewelry, and accessories in a royal or noble household.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Originally, a room or large closet in which clothes were kept, and in which the making of clothes, repairing, etc., were carried on.
  2. n. A piece of furniture for the keeping of clothes, especially a large press closed by means of a door or doors, in which clothes can be hung up, and sometimes having shelves and drawers as well.
  3. n. The clothes belonging to one person at one time.
  4. n. A privy.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A cabinet in which clothes may be stored.
  2. n. The department (or people working in that department) that obtains and stores articles of clothing for use in theatrical or motion picture productions.
  3. n. A collection of clothing.
  4. v. intransitive To provide (a film, a customer, etc.) with clothing.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
  2. n. Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.
  3. n. obsolete A privy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. collection of clothing belonging to one person
  2. n. collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company
  3. n. a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

Etymologies

  1. From Old Northern French warderobe, a northern variant of garderobe, from garder ‘to keep safe’ + robe. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English warderobe, from Old North French : warder, to guard; see wer-3 in Indo-European roots + robe, garment; see robe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • frindley According to this article about the Oxford Word of the Year 2008, wardrobe has become a verb, "as in: Ms. Mendes has a long-standing relationship with the house of Calvin Klein and has been wardrobed by Calvin Klein Collection."

    Ugh, ugh, ugh. I'm all for creative language change and interesting new coinages. But really, what is wrong with dressed, which has been serving us so well in this context?

    * contemplates adding new comment to when the revolution comes *

    Nov 11, 2008

  • anydelirium '(She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself in a wardrobe.)' -The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis Feb 20, 2008

  • chained_bear see also werderobe (thanks uselessness!) and warderobe (thanks mollusque!). Dec 1, 2007

  • whichbe a ward for robes? Nov 30, 2007

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‘wardrobe’ has been looked up 2244 times, added to 19 lists, commented on 4 times, and has a Scrabble score of 14.