<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.</li><li>a wall cupboard used for storage, as of kitchen utensils or toilet articles: a kitchen cabinet; a medicine cabinet.</li><li>a piece of furniture containing a radio or television set, usually standing on the floor and often having a record player or a place for phonograph records.</li><li>(often Cabinet) a council advising a president, sovereign, etc., especially the group of ministers or executives responsible for the government of a nation.</li><li>(in the United States) an advisory body to the president, consisting of the heads of the 13 executive departments of the federal government.</li><li>a small case with compartments for valuables or other small objects.</li><li>a small chamber or booth for special use, especially a shower stall.</li><li>a private room.</li><li>a room set aside for the exhibition of small works of art or objets d'art.</li><li>Also called cabinet wine: a dry white wine produced in Germany from fully matured grapes without the addition of extra sugar.</li><li>a milkshake made with ice cream (chiefly Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts).</li><li>Archaic: a small room.</li><li>Obsolete: a small cabin.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>pertaining to a political cabinet: a cabinet meeting.</li><li>private; confidential; secret.</li><li>pertaining to a private room.</li><li>of suitable value, beauty, or size for a private room, small display case, etc.: a cabinet edition of Milton.</li><li>of, relating to, or used by a cabinetmaker or in cabinetmaking.</li><li>Drafting: designating a method of projection cabinet projection in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing cabinet drawing having all vertical and horizontal lines drawn to exact scale, with oblique lines reduced to about half scale so as to offset the appearance of distortion.</li></ul>