Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wardrobe
IPA transcription: [w'ɔɹdɹ,oʊb]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wardrobe, closet, press
    Meaning: a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
  • Synonyms: wardrobe
    Meaning: collection of clothing belonging to one person
Usage examples
  • She died, -- this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun.
  • Nothing would satisfy him then till he had clothed her suitably, bringing her dresses from the wardrobe for her to choose.
  • His dress was as coarse as it could be, being still decent; and, at a time when great expense was lavished upon the wardrobe, even of the lowest who pretended to the character of gentleman, this indicated mediocrity of circumstances, if not poverty.
  • She had stretched her means and her credit to the utmost in regard to her wardrobe, and was aware that she had never been so well equipped since those early days of her career in which her father and mother had thought that her beauty, assisted by a generous expenditure, would serve to dispose of her without delay.
  • Not content with tearing off the dresses that were fitted on her, one day Silvia slipped upstairs to her wardrobe and tore down all her old dresses and made havoc with them, not sparing her wedding dress either, but tearing and ripping them all up so that there was hardly a shred or rag left big enough to dress a doll in.