cabinet

Other forms of cabinet

plural

cabinets·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cabinet

What does cabinet mean?

cabinet means "a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cabinet?

cabinet has 3 syllables: cab-i-net. The stress falls on "cab". In IPA it is /ˈkæbənət/.

What is another word for cabinet?

Close synonyms include locker, storage locker, console. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cabinet a common word?

cabinet is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.