wardrobe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A tall piece of furniture used for storing clothes.

   She hung her coat in the wardrobe.

2. 2
   noun

   All the clothes that one person owns.

   He bought a whole new wardrobe for his trip.

3. 3
   noun

   The collection of costumes belonging to a theatre or film company.

   The costume designer manages the entire 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.

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