different between locker vs wardrobe

English

Etymology

From lock (lock +? -er) from Old English loc (“fastening, enclosure”), from Proto-Germanic *luk?. Cognate with German Loch, Dutch luik, and Dutch loket.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Noun

locker (plural lockers)

1. A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store clothing, equipment, or books.

   The student placed her books in her locker when she arrived at school.

2. (rare) One who locks something.

   The locker of the trapped chest must be careful, so as not to spring the trap.

3. (automotive) A locking differential.
4. (historical) A customs officer who guards a warehouse.
   • 1845, Reports of cases argued and determined in the courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber (volume 12)

     The actual delivery of the goods is then effected by any person bearing an order from the importer, called a merchant's order, and addressed to the warehouse-keeper, upon the presentment of which the warehouseman delivers the goods, having previously obtained the signature of the locker to it as a proof that the duties have been paid […]

Synonyms

• (storage compartment): footlocker

Derived terms

• locker room

Translations

See also

• chest
• trunk

Anagrams

• relock, rockel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English locker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: loc?ker
• Rhymes: -?k?r

Noun

locker m (plural lockers, diminutive lockertje n)

1. A locker (lockable storage compartment).

   Synonym: kluis

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

locker (comparative lockerer, superlative am lockersten)

1. loose
2. relaxed

Declension

Synonyms

• (relaxed): entspannt

Antonyms

• (relaxed): verkrampft

Adverb

locker

1. loosely
2. relaxedly, casually
3. (with an estimate) easily (expressing confidence in the value)

Verb

locker

1. inflection of lockern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Further reading

• “locker” in Duden online
• “locker” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “locker”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English locker.

Noun

locker m (plural lockeres)

1. locker

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??d???b/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w??d?o?b/

Noun

wardrobe (plural wardrobes)

1. (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
2. (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
3. (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
4. (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
5. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
6. (figuratively) 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. (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
   • 1605, 1st Pt. Jeronimo:

     Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud,
     Might I now and Andrea in one fight,
     Make vp thy wardroope
     Richer by a knight.

10. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
11. (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
12. (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
13. (obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
14. (hunting, obsolete) Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.

Synonyms

• (movable furniture for storing clothes): armoir, dresser; cupboard (UK); closet (regional US), press (Irish & Scots), shrank
• (department overseeing costumes): costume department
• (sleeping chamber): See bedroom
• (lavatory or outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• lowboy
• tallboy

Verb

wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)

1. (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
   • 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:

     […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.

References

• "wardrobe, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1921), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• bareword, bore draw, bore-draw, drawbore