“Closet” vs. “Open” vs. “Delivered’? I mean all the answers are identical, so “closet” vs. “opened” may be different if a certain phrase is spelled otherwise. How is the “Wardrobe” created?
I believe that there are speakers on both sides of the pond, and on one of them a good one. This also prevents noise from overheating someone. Is the term closet similar to wardrobe in the Atlantic Ocean? The first is distinctly American, and the latter is used in the UK. Oxford Dictionaries provide the following tidbits:
A tall cupboard or wardrobe with a door, used for storage.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting a private or small room):From
Old French, diminutive of clos ‘closed’ and wardrobe 1.
A large, tall cupboard or recess in which clothes may be stored.
All of the bedrooms have fitted wardrobes and wash hand basins while one rear bedroom also has an en-suite shower room. Imfrom
the Old Northern French Wardrobe, variant of Old French garderobe I don’t live in the US nor in
the UK but I would like to know whether Americans ever use the word Wardrobe, in the sense of furniture, instead of closet.
Can you suggest why the word closet was used in the US but not the UK? Why was closed more commonly used in England at the time when the Pilgrims left Plymouth and boarded the Mayflower in 1620–? Has the meaning or the usage of the term changed in the last fifty years?
Why is
one term for bedroom furniture preferred to the other?
The term “closet’ shows up much more in American writing and speech because closets (the architectural feature) are much more common than wardrobes (the piece of furniture) in American homes, and have been for a century or more.
I agree with GEdgar’s answer that in the United States, a closet is an architectural feature—essentially a small room (possibly very small)—whereas wardrobe is a piece of furniture (or possibly the collection of clothes that can be held in either) In my experience, the terms are not generally used interchangeably for either the built-in home feature or the casegood, though I can imagine that in a pinch someone who couldn’t bring to mind the appropriate word for a piece of furniture might call it a “closet thing” or similar.
What is the use of both terms in extended form? For example a large packing box fitted with a bar for hanging clothes is usually called a wardrobe box (see, e.g., ‘convention box’). In some shops you can get good storage with this Honey Can-Do 68-Inch Steel Freestanding Wardrobe Closet (from retailer Bed Bath and Beyond); there are many different types of closets ( linen closets 2, supply closets 3, coat closets 4, etc.); and when something doesn’t quite fit either category advertisers may employ both terms at once, as in the Honey
Can-Dou00ae 68-Inch Steel Freestanding Wardrobe Closet (from retailer Bed Bath & Beyond), a How do you organize clothes, shoes and other items in one compartment?
In the US, closet is not really preferred over wardrobe in the sense of having replaced it as the “correct” term—both terms are still in common use by most adult AmE speakers only for two different concepts. Is the word “closet” more common in US speeches and writing? In the U.S. when the word “closet” was first used in the English language, then “wardrobe” became used in the English language. This can be seen in a google search on Google. In fact, “closet” has been more common than “wardrobe” in American English writing for over two centuries. When it comes to dressing like a women ” from early 1800 until mid-1960s for more casual clothing and casual wear, her wearer suffered a weaker neck at this time. The use of “wardrobe” held fairly steady from 1800–2000, whereas “closet” gradually declined to the mid-1960s and then began a fairly steep rise.
In the US, built-in clothing storage, AKA closets, are almost ubiquitous, and have been for a very long time. The reason for this disparity has to do with architectural history: in the US, built-in clothing storage is virtually ubiquitous, and have been for a very long time. If clothes hang low on the walls, and still do this on any sofas, the clothes would be less wearable. So we talk about closets more than about wardrobes, because we have more closets than we do wardrobes.
The New York Times reports in their timeline” A Few Niches in Closet History” that an early-adopter of closets in that city was a luxury apartment building constructed in 1880. A real estate expert quoted in the associated article notes that today, In
general, regular closets are 3 by 5 feet, while walk-in closets are 5 by 8 feet….
I converted a small second kitchen in my 1900 farmhouse into a sleep in closet, complete with its own closet, though the contents are nothing like as luxe as Carey’s/Carrie’s).
When space is a premium in the US, the closet has been common for even longer. A couple of articles on the history of Iowa home architecture 6 show small closets in homes built before the mid-1800s, and common for houses built by the end of that century. Are Americans expected to have a closet in every room (even if that’s not usually a legal requirement )?
In this architectural context, wardrobes (the clothing storage furniture item) are used largely by folks with what most Americans would consider substandard closet space. One article, which recommends various wardrobe options 7, opens: So
you’ve found the perfect apartment, with great light, in a great neighborhood, only — it doesn’t have any closets. Why take a dress style challenge and throw everything out?
Notice the dramatic pause (punctuationally speaking) introducing the desperate lack of closets.
In fact, there is so little call for separate furniture for hanging clothing that there is a small cottage industry dedicated to repurposing such furniture. In fact, almost every other furniture company in the world has its own model of its home kitchen furniture. I used to use this in my sewing machine. I grew up in Illinois, and found that they now make quite a lot of clothing/shoes for the household. What can I do with my old antique armoire?
In the old days them were used to store clothing and linens back when bedrooms didn’t have closets and/or some people use them to hold their TVs — but that trend perhaps isn’t as big of a deal as it once was now that TV screens are so flat. Can we get a true full screen LCD screen with a 12″ screen without having to buy it along with any other display? Would you make a good armoire?
1 The piece of furniture is also sometimes called an Armoire, and if it is combined with a chest of drawers it may be called a chiffarobe. I’m sure there are other terms in regional use, too—possibly even closet. I notice that even Merriam-Webster lists “a cabinet or recess” as a possible meaning of closet, so it’s likely that someone in the US says this or did at one time, but it is far from common now.
As a typical day care provider you would look for clothing and bathroom items in the same area (M-W); from
where you’d look for towels and bed linens but now likely to also house other bed & bath necessities) 3
The Free Dictionary; what it sounds like, but usually found
at places of business rather than in homes 5; “Closets, Please, and the Bigger
the Better”, by Elissa Gootman, April 5, 2013 6 See “A Historical Look at Architecture in Iowa. The Annals of Iowa 38 (1967), 481-500 and Peterson, Fred W. “Tradition and Change in Nineteenth-Century Iowa Farmhouses. ” The Annals of Iowa 52 (1993), 251-281
7 Nancy Mitchell, “Ideas & Inspiration: Storing Clothes in Apartments with No Closets”, Apartment Therapy, Dec. 2008, 29. 29 May
2015
What’s Hotlish about? I am in the US and there are many movable objects in a
closet which are built into my house. A compartment is built around a bedroom. Is it possible for the closet to remain in place?
A closet may have doors, unlike this one.
As a young girl, when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe”, I imagined something like the first picture. I wonder if children of England actually imagine something identical to the 1st picture?
How can we make a happy happy ending to a relationship?
What’s Hotlish about? I am in the US and there are many movable objects in a
closet which are built into my house. A compartment is built around a bedroom. Is it possible for the closet to remain in place?
A closet may have doors, unlike this one.
As a young girl, when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe”, I imagined something like the first picture. I wonder if children of England actually imagine something identical to the 1st picture?
How can we make a happy happy ending to a relationship?
What’s Hotlish about? I am in the US and there are many movable objects in a
closet which are built into my house. A compartment is built around a bedroom. Is it possible for the closet to remain in place?
A closet may have doors, unlike this one.
As a young girl, when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe”, I imagined something like the first picture. I wonder if children of England actually imagine something identical to the 1st picture?
How can we make a happy happy ending to a relationship?
What’s Hotlish about? I am in the US and there are many movable objects in a
closet which are built into my house. A compartment is built around a bedroom. Is it possible for the closet to remain in place?
A closet may have doors, unlike this one.
As a young girl, when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe”, I imagined something like the first picture. I wonder if children of England actually imagine something identical to the 1st picture?
How can we make a happy happy ending to a relationship?
What’s Hotlish about? I am in the US and there are many movable objects in a
closet which are built into my house. A compartment is built around a bedroom. Is it possible for the closet to remain in place?
A closet may have doors, unlike this one.
As a young girl, when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe”, I imagined something like the first picture. I wonder if children of England actually imagine something identical to the 1st picture?
How can we make a happy happy ending to a relationship?
What’s Hotlish about? I am in the US and there are many movable objects in a
closet which are built into my house. A compartment is built around a bedroom. Is it possible for the closet to remain in place?
A closet may have doors, unlike this one.
As a young girl, when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe”, I imagined something like the first picture. I wonder if children of England actually imagine something identical to the 1st picture?
How can we make a happy happy ending to a relationship?
What’s Hotlish about? I am in the US and there are many movable objects in a
closet which are built into my house. A compartment is built around a bedroom. Is it possible for the closet to remain in place?
A closet may have doors, unlike this one.
As a young girl, when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe”, I imagined something like the first picture. I wonder if children of England actually imagine something identical to the 1st picture?
How can we make a happy happy ending to a relationship?
What’s Hotlish about? I am in the US and there are many movable objects in a
closet which are built into my house. A compartment is built around a bedroom. Is it possible for the closet to remain in place?
A closet may have doors, unlike this one.
As a young girl, when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe”, I imagined something like the first picture. I wonder if children of England actually imagine something identical to the 1st picture?
How can we make a happy happy ending to a relationship?
What’s Hotlish about? I am in the US and there are many movable objects in a
closet which are built into my house. A compartment is built around a bedroom. Is it possible for the closet to remain in place?
A closet may have doors, unlike this one.
As a young girl, when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe”, I imagined something like the first picture. I wonder if children of England actually imagine something identical to the 1st picture?
How can we make a happy happy ending to a relationship?
