drawer

/drɔr/

/drɔ/

Other forms: drawers

A drawer is a sliding compartment that fits into a dresser and is used for storage. You might keep socks in one drawer and t-shirts in another.

Dressers have drawers, and so do other pieces of furniture, including desks, bureaus, and kitchen cabinets. Your kitchen drawers might be full of silverware, while the drawers in your office are a jumble of pens, paper clips, and Post-It notes. Drawer comes from the verb draw, from its "pull" meaning — the original idea of the word was that it's a container that's "drawn" out of a cabinet.

Definitions of drawer

1. noun

   a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
   type of:

   container

   any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

   storage space

   the area in any structure that provides space for storage
2. noun

   an artist skilled at drawing
   synonyms: draftsman

   types:

   cartoonist

   a person who draws cartoons

   pavement artist

   someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money)

   sketcher

   someone who draws sketches

   lampoon artist

   a cartoonist who draws parodies or satirical renditions of cultural or social or political situations

   type of:

   artist, creative person

   a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
3. noun

   the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
   type of:

   money dealer, money handler

   a person who receives or invests or pays out money