Results for cabinet

Definitions of cabinet:

part of speech: adjective

Secret; small; as, a cabinet organ; of or pertaining to the advisory council of the chief executive of a nation.

part of speech: noun

A small apartment; a private room; a plece of furniture to hold objects of art, curiosity, etc.; a committee of the heads of governmental departments.

part of speech: adjective

Confidential: secret: private. In accordance with this sense the term cabinet council was long, in general use before it became specifically applied in politics.

part of speech: noun

A small private room or closet; the secret council of a sovereign; the executive government of a country, so called because originally held in a small room or cabinet; a piece of furniture containing boxes and drawers.

part of speech: noun

A small room or closet: a case of drawers for articles of value: a private room for consultation- hence THE CABINET, the advisers of the President.

Usage examples for cabinet:

• " But I have been thinking," said Lucy, " that it is all Rollo's plan, and his museum; and that he ought to be cabinet keeper, if he wants to be." "Rollo's Museum", Jacob Abbott

• That called the " Cabinet is the best. "The Automobilist Abroad", M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

• The cabinet minister said little. "The Marriage of William Ashe", Mrs. Humphry Ward