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# cloakroom

«cloakroom» in Mova's school dictionary: **a room where you can leave coats, bags and umbrellas, for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a cloakroom, cloakrooms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cloakroom is a room where you can leave coats, bags and umbrellas, for example in a school or theatre. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cloakroom» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloakroom/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.