Meanings
plural cloakrooms · alternative cloak room
- A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club.
Synonyms: coatroom, coat check, checkroom
- IndiaIrelandUKA room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
Synonyms: lost and found, baggage room, left-luggage office
- IrelandUKeuphemisticA lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room.
Although there was a cloakroom on the ground floor, the Old Rectory had only one bathroom, a defect which necessitated embarrassed, low-voiced enquiries before anyone upset their carefully worked-out rota by taking an unexpected bath.
1989, P. D. James, Devices and DesiresSynonyms: bathroom, half bath, half bathroom, toilet
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club.
nounA room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
nounA lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room.
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More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian гардероб, кулоари
- гардероб (garderob)room for luggage
- кулоари (kuloari)private lounge
- гардероб (garderob)room for coats
Catalan guarda-roba
- guarda-robaroom for coats
Chinese Mandarin 寄物處 /寄物处, 寄物處 /寄物处
- 寄物處 /寄物处 (jìwùchù)room for luggage
- 寄物處 /寄物处 (jìwùchù)room for coats
Czech šatna
- šatnaroom for coats
Danish garderobe
- garderoberoom for coats
Dutch garderobe, vestiaire
- garderoberoom for coats
- vestiaireroom for coats
Finnish matkatavarasäilytys, narikka
- matkatavarasäilytysroom for luggage
- narikkaroom for coats
- vaatesäilöroom for coats
- vaatehuoneroom for coats
French consigne, vestiaire
- consigneroom for luggage
- vestiaireroom for coats
German Gepäcksaufbewahrung, Gepäckaufbewahrung
- Gepäcksaufbewahrungroom for luggage
- Gepäckaufbewahrungroom for luggage
- Garderoberoom for coats
- Kleideraufbewahrungroom for coats
Hebrew חדר שמירת חפצים, מלתחה
- חדר שמירת חפצים (khéder shmirát khafatsím)room for luggage
- מלתחה (meltakha)room for coats
Hungarian csomagmegőrző, ruhatár
- csomagmegőrzőroom for luggage
- ruhatárroom for coats
Irish seomra cótaí
- seomra cótaíroom for coats
Italian deposito, deposito bagagli
- depositoroom for luggage
- deposito bagagliroom for luggage
- guardarobaroom for coats
Norwegian Bokmål garderobe
- garderoberoom for coats
Persian رختکن
- رختکنroom for coats
Polish bagażownia, przechowalnia
- bagażowniaroom for luggage
- przechowalniaroom for luggage
- kuluarprivate lounge
- szatniaroom for coats
Portuguese sala de bagagem, bengaleiro
- sala de bagagemroom for luggage
- bengaleiroroom for coats
Romanian cameră de bagaje, garderobă
- cameră de bagajeroom for luggage
- garderobăroom for coats
Russian ка́мера хране́ния, гардеро́б
- ка́мера хране́ния (kámera xranénija)room for luggage
- гардеро́б (garderób)room for coats
- гардеробное помещение (garderobnoje pomeščenije)room for coats
Spanish sala de equipajes, consigna de equipajes
- sala de equipajesroom for luggage
- consigna de equipajesroom for luggage
- guardarroparoom for coats
Swedish bagageförvaring, bagageförvaringsutrymme
- bagageförvaringroom for luggage
- bagageförvaringsutrymmeroom for luggage
- garderobroom for coats
Turkish vestiyer, vestiyer
- vestiyerroom for luggage
- vestiyerroom for coats
Ukrainian гардеро́б, роздяга́льня
- гардеро́б (harderób)room for coats
- роздяга́льня (rozdjahálʹnja)room for coats
Cite this entry
cloakroom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloakroom
“cloakroom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloakroom. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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