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Definition of Cabinet
1. Noun. A piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display.
Generic synonyms: Article Of Furniture, Furniture, Piece Of Furniture
Terms within: Shelf
2. Noun. Persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers.
Generic synonyms: Advisory Board, Planning Board
Specialized synonyms: British Cabinet, Shadow Cabinet, United States Cabinet, Us Cabinet
3. Noun. A storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock.
Generic synonyms: Compartment
Specialized synonyms: Glory Hole, Lazaretto
Group relationships: Locker Room
4. Noun. Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television.
Definition of Cabinet
1. n. A hut; a cottage; a small house.
2. a. Suitable for a cabinet; small.
3. v. i. To inclose
Definition of Cabinet
1. Noun. A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall. ¹
2. Noun. (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3?" by 5½". ¹
3. Noun. A group of advisors to a government or business entity. ¹
4. Noun. (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
5. Noun. (archaic) A small chamber or private room. ¹
6. Noun. (often capitalized) a collection of art or ethnographic objects ¹
7. Noun. (dialectal Rhode Island) milkshake ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cabinet
1. a piece of furniture with shelves and drawers [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabinet
Literary usage of Cabinet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophical Magazine (1830)
"cabinet of PH Nicklin. cabinet of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Diam. ...
cabinet of TG Lea. cabinet of Prof. Vanuxem. cabinet of PH Nicklin. ..."
2. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Increased security oi the Crown and of Ministers under the cabinet system.
to the House of Lords ; to Ike House of Commons, Three-fold capacity of cabinet ..."
3. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley (1904)
"CHAPTER X AS HEAD OF A cabinet (1868-1874) RATIONAL co-operation in politics
would be at an end, if no two men might act together, uni.il they had satisfied ..."
4. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley (1911)
"CHAPTER X AS HEAD OF A cabinet (1868-1874} RATIONAL co-operation in politics
would be at an end, if no two men might act together, until they had ..."
5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1913)
"Much more attractive and of greater value to the student is the concluding portion
of the book, consisting of three chapters, ' The Principles of cabinet ..."
6. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"2 The cabinet.—The cabinet is what in England gives name and character to the
... The cabinet consists of those privy councilors, who actually conduct the ..."
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