name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
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Usage: UK
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noun
An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
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Usage: US
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noun
One who dresses in a particular way.
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noun
A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
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Topics: broadcasting, entertainment, film, lifestyle, media, television, theater
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noun
A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
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Broader terms: body servant
noun
A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
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Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
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Usage: UK
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noun
A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
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Synonyms: bolt, bolter
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noun
A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
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noun
A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
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Usage: dated
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noun
A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
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Topics: business, mining
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noun
One who dresses or prepares stone.
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noun
furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chest of drawers, chest, bureau
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Broader terms: furniture, piece of furniture, article of furniture
Narrower terms: chiffonier, commode, highboy, tallboy, lowboy
noun
a cabinet with shelves
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Broader terms: cabinet
noun
low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: dressing table, vanity, toilet table
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Broader terms: table
noun
a wardrobe assistant for an actor
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Synonyms: actor's assistant
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Broader terms: assistant, helper, help, supporter
noun
a person who dresses in a particular way
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: chichi
History
From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.
From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.
Across languages
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