noun

1. a case or cupboard with drawers or shelves for holding or storing things a china cabinet, a medicine cabinet
2. 1. a boxlike container, usually decorated, that houses all the assembled components of a record player, radio or television, etc.
   2. a boxlike container for a speaker (sense )
3. Archaic
   1. a private council room
   2. a meeting held there
4. ☆ a body of official advisors to a president, king, governor, etc.: in the U.S., composed of the heads of the various governmental departments
5. Archaic a small, private room

Etymology: Fr, prob. < It gabbinetto, dim. of gabbia < L cavea, cage

adjective

1. of a kind usually displayed in cabinets cabinet curios
2. of or made by a cabinetmaker
3. of a political cabinet