cabinet

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
noun persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
noun a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock

From cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet. In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.

"Was the photograph a cabinet?" — The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English, Unknown
The foregoing formed the Cabinet. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
The Cabinet awaits your final report with the utmost anxiety. — His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

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