# wardrobe

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/ · frequency rank #9,692

## Definitions
1. A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
2. A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
3. The building housing such a department.
4. Any closet used for storing anything.
5. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
6. The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
7. A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
8. A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
9. Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
10. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
11. Any collection of clothing.
12. Any collection of anything.
13. A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
14. Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.

## Etymology
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.

## Common misspellings (12)
`awrdrobe`, `wadrrobe`, `warddrobe`, `wardorbe`, `wardrboe`, `wardrobbe`, `wardroeb`, `wardrrobe`, `warrdobe`, `warrdrobe`, `wradrobe`, `wwardrobe`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/wardrobe