dresser
An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or…An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
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» Tom helped Mary move the dresser.
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12 senses(UK)An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
ку́хонный шкафkúxonnyj škaf
ми́сникmýsnyk
a cabinet with shelves
(US)An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
Kommode
комо́дkomód
furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
One who dresses in a particular way.
He's a very snappy dresser.
a person who dresses in a particular way
A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
a wardrobe assistant for an actor
A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
(UK)A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
ore dresser
(dated)A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
One who dresses or prepares stone.
Examples
51 sentencesTom helped Mary move the dresser.
Tom is a very sloppy dresser.
Did you check in that dresser?
Did you look on your dresser?
This dresser takes up too much room.
ruЭтот комод занимает слишком много места. — marafon
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecFrom Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.
From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.
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Forms
plural: dressersSynonyms
9 synonyms- a wardrobe assistant for an actor:actor's assistant
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup:dressing tablevanitytoilet table
- furniture with drawers for keeping clothes:chest of drawerschestbureau
Word family
13 related wordsSee also
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