medicine cabinet
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈmɛdɪsɪn ˈkæbɪnɪt/
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botiquín
- Give me a lab report on everything in this medicine cabinet, too.
- open the medicine cabinet
- medicine cabinet in the bathroom
- medicine cabinet mirror
Oh, wow, It's like a little medicine cabinet.
- Oh, wow, It's like a little medicine cabinet.
- That's quite remarkable because you have drugs in your medicine cabinet.
Examples
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Ed takes the sleeping pills from the medicine cabinet and takes two more.
Fiction book (2000) -
I looked in your medicine cabinet.
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Uh here, let me go check my medicine cabinet.
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I found it in the medicine cabinet after you moved out.
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The same drugs from your medicine cabinet.
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I leave it in the medicine cabinet.
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So look in the medicine cabinet.
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Emily had some Xanax in the medicine cabinet.
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Will reaches up into the open medicine cabinet for a bottle of aspirin.
Fiction book (2002) -
Many people keep their vitamins and pain relievers in a medicine cabinet in the bathroom.
Synonyms
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A small bathroom cabinet that holds medicine and small personal care items
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a cabinet for storing medicines' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'medicine' (drugs to treat illness) with 'cabinet' (a storage piece of furniture). This noun–noun composition is a common, literal pattern in English (and parallels exist in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Medicine cabinet comes from the small cabinet people kept in the bathroom to keep their medicine and bandages. Because that cupboard held pills, creams and other care items for quick use, the name now means 'a small cabinet for medicines and toiletries'.