cabinet

== English == === Etymology === From cabin +‎ -et, influenced by French cabinet. In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/, /ˈkæb.nɪt/ (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈkæb.ə.nət/, /ˈkæb.nət/ (General American, weak vowel merger) Rhymes: -æbnət (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkæb.nət/ === Noun === cabinet (plural cabinets) A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall. A cupboard. A museum display case. (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse. The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab. (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½". A group of advisors to a government or business entity. (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. (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet. (archaic) A small chamber or private room. (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects. (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake. (obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house. An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment. ==== Synonyms ==== (cabinet-level agency in the executive branch): cabinet agency, cabinet department, program cabinet (rare), superagency (California) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === armoire chest of drawers salon === Anagrams === bacinet == French == === Etymology === From cabine +‎ -et. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ka.bi.nɛ/ === Noun === cabinet m (plural cabinets) (archaic) a study an office, a surgery a cabinet a cabinet of government advisors (in the plural) the toilet, lavatory ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Amharic: ካቢኔ (kabine) → Chadian Arabic: كابيني (kābīnē, “toilet seat”) → Classical Persian: کابینه (kābīna), کابینت (kābīnat)→ Hindustani:Hindi: काबीना (kābīnā)Urdu: کابینہ (kābīna) → Hijazi Arabic: كبنيه (kabīnē, “toilet seat”) → Dutch: kabinet→ Indonesian: kabinet (influenced by English)→ Min Nan: 甲辦 / 甲办, 甲角→ Papiamentu: kabinèt (“wheelhouse”), kabernèchi (“cupboard”) (from the diminutive) → English: cabinet → Georgian: კაბინეტი (ḳabineṭi) → German: Kabinett→ Hungarian: kabinet→ Russian: кабинет (kabinet)→ Ukrainian: кабіне́т (kabinét) → Greek: καμπινές (kampinés) → Portuguese: gabinete === Further reading === “cabinet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French cabinet. === Pronunciation === === Noun === cabinet n (plural cabinete) cabinet ==== Declension ====