Origin: 1500-1600 French small room, from Old North French cabine room for gambling
1 a piece of furniture with doors and shelves or drawers, used for storing or showing things → cupboard: kitchen cabinets a display cabinet full of jewelry → see alsofiling cabinet2 (also Cabinet)social studies, politics an important group of politicians who make decisions or advise the leader of a government: She was appointed to the Cabinet as secretary of commerce. a Cabinet meeting [Origin: 1500–1600 French small room, from Old North French cabine room for gambling]