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# cloakroom

noun (a cloakroom, cloakrooms)

«cloakroom» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A cloakroom is a room where you can leave coats, bags and umbrellas, for example in a school or theatre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/#m1)
2. (UK, polite euphemism) A cloakroom can mean a toilet: «the ladies' cloakroom». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/#m2)

### In the lessons

In school, pupils hang their coats and bags in the cloakroom. In theatres you leave your coat at the cloakroom and get a ticket. In polite British talk «cloakroom» may be a soft word for toilet.

### Examples

- Hang your coat in the cloakroom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/#x1)
- My PE bag is in the cloakroom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/#x2)
- We left our umbrellas at the theatre cloakroom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/#x3)
- The cloakroom ticket was number 42. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/#x4)
- Excuse me, where is the cloakroom? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/#x5)
- The cloakroom was full of wet wellies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/#x6)

### Note

One word. In polite British use «the cloakroom» may mean a toilet; ask if unsure. In the USA a «coat check» or «coatroom» is more common.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cloakroom» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cloakroom» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cloakroom.html) on Mova free.