cloakroom

See also: cloak room

English

Alternative forms

• cloak room

Etymology

From cloak +‎ room.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkləʊkɹʊm/, /ˈkləʊkɹuːm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

cloakroom (plural cloakrooms)

A cloakroom.

1. A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club.
2. (British, Ireland, India) A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
3. A private lounge next to a legislative chamber.
4. (British, Ireland, euphemistic) A lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room.

Synonyms

• (all senses): cloaks
• (room for storing heavy outer garments): coatroom, coat check, checkroom (US)
• (room for luggage): lost and found; baggage room (US); left-luggage office (UK)
• (lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (small secondary lavatory): half bath, half bathroom (North America); toilet (NZ)

Coordinate terms

• (coatroom for women): ladies' cloakroom (historical)
• (lavatory for women): powder room; ladies' cloakroom (dated)

Derived terms

• cloakroom attendant
• cloakroom ticket
• ladies' cloakroom

Translations

room for coats

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: гардероб (bg) m (garderob)
• Catalan: guarda-roba m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寄物處／寄物处 (jìwùchù)

• Czech: šatna (cs) f
• Danish: garderobe (da) c
• Dutch: garderobe (nl) f or m, vestiaire (nl) m
• Faroese: klædnagoymsla f
• Finnish: narikka (fi), vaatesäilö (fi), vaatehuone (fi)
• French: vestiaire (fr) m
• Galician: gardarroupa m
• German: Garderobe (de) f, Kleideraufbewahrung f
• Hebrew: מלתחה (he) f (meltakha)
• Hungarian: ruhatár (hu)
• Irish: seomra cótaí m
• Italian: guardaroba (it) m
• Macedonian: гардеро́ба f (garderóba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: garderobe (no) m

  Nynorsk: garderobe m

• Persian: رختکن (fa)
• Polish: szatnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: bengaleiro m
• Romanian: garderobă f
• Russian: гардеро́б (ru) m (garderób), гардеробное помещение (garderobnoje pomeščenije)
• Serbo-Croatian: garderóba (sh) f
• Spanish: guardarropa (es) m
• Swedish: garderob (sv) c
• Turkish: vestiyer (tr)
• Ukrainian: гардеро́б (uk) (harderób), роздяга́льня f (rozdjahálʹnja)

room for luggage

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: гардероб (bg) m (garderob)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寄物處／寄物处 (jìwùchù)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: viðførisgoymsla f
• Finnish: matkatavarasäilytys
• French: consigne (fr) f
• German: Gepäcksaufbewahrung, Gepäckaufbewahrung f
• Hebrew: חדר שמירת חפצים m (khéder shmirát khafatsím)
• Italian: deposito (it) m, deposito bagagli m
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: bagażownia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sala de bagagem f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ка́мера хране́ния (ru) f (kámera xranénija)
• Serbo-Croatian: garderóba (sh) f
• Spanish: sala de equipajes, consigna de equipajes f
• Swedish: bagageförvaring (sv) c, bagageförvaringsutrymme n
• Turkish: vestiyer (tr)

private lounge

• Bulgarian: кулоари (bg) pl (kuloari)

toilet — see toilet

References

• "ˈcloak-room, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1891), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Further reading

• “cloakroom”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “cloakroom”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “cloakroom”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cloakroom”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.