DRESSER (dresser)

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Irregular inflected form: dresser   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dresser mean? 

• DRESSER (noun)
  The noun DRESSER has 5 senses:

1. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

2. a person who dresses in a particular way

3. a wardrobe assistant for an actor

4. low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup

5. a cabinet with shelves

  Familiarity information: DRESSER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRESSER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bureau; chest; chest of drawers; dresser

Hypernyms ("dresser" is a kind of...):

article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)

Meronyms (parts of "dresser"):

drawer (a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out)

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dresser"):

chiffonier; commode (a tall elegant chest of drawers)

highboy; tallboy (a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs)

lowboy (a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who dresses in a particular way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he's a meticulous dresser

Hypernyms ("dresser" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dresser"):

chichi (someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way)

Derivation:

dress (dress in a certain manner)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A wardrobe assistant for an actor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

actor's assistant; dresser

Hypernyms ("dresser" is a kind of...):

assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

Derivation:

dress (put on clothes)

dress (provide with clothes or put clothes on)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dresser; dressing table; toilet table; vanity

Hypernyms ("dresser" is a kind of...):

table (a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A cabinet with shelves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dresser" is a kind of...):

cabinet (a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display)

 Context examples 

There is not only the herd, but the shearer and brander, and then the dresser, the curer, the dyer, the fuller, the webster, the merchant, and a score of others.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He held up his candle before an extraordinary object which stood at the back of the dresser.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not a word was spoken when we first went in; and the Dutch clock by the dresser seemed, in the silence, to tick twice as loud as usual.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jo had backed into a corner, and as she finished her speech, she vanished precipitately into the kitchen, where she sat down upon a dresser and told the assembled cats that she was happy, oh, so happy! while Laurie departed, feeling that he had made a rather neat thing of it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the further end was a long black buffet or dresser, thickly covered with gold cups, silver salvers, and other such valuables.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no furniture, save a single long dresser covered with coarse crockery, and a number of wooden benches and trestles, the legs of which sank deeply into the soft clay floor, while the only light, save that of the fire, was furnished by three torches stuck in sockets on the wall, which flickered and crackled, giving forth a strong resinous odor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His bedroom was the simplest room of all—except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold. Daisy took the brush with delight and smoothed her hair, whereupon Gatsby sat down and shaded his eyes and began to laugh.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)