Definition of cabinet

What does the word cabinet mean?

• part of speech: noun, adjective

  Small private room, closet; case with drawers &c. for keeping valuables or displaying curiosities. (Polish) council-room of about twelve or twenty chief ministers of state; those ministers collectively; c. council, one of their meetings; C. Minister, one of them; c. crisis, difficulties involving change of government or resignation of some member (s) of c. C. edition, between library& popular in cost &c.; c. photograph, size larger than carte-de-visite; c.-maker, -king, skilled joiner, joinery, (also facet. of prime minister forming new government). [French]

• part of speech: noun

  c. pudding, made of sponge-cakes, eggs, milk, &c.