dresser

1 of 2

noun (1)

dress·​er ˈdre-sər 

1

obsolete : a table or sideboard for preparing and serving food

2

: a cupboard to hold dishes and cooking utensils

3

: a chest of drawers or bureau with a mirror

dresser

2 of 2

noun (2)

: one that dresses

a fashionable dresser

Examples of dresser in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Near the pills on the dresser was Jones’ ID, the complaint alleges. —Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025

Walmart’s sale includes coffee tables and desks for your living room, mattresses and dressers for your bedroom, and dining table sets for your kitchen. —Rachel Trujillo, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Jan. 2025

Looking like the cross between a spermatozoon and a tadpole, this needy, frail little infant is wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, resting on the dresser and then the drawer of poor Jack Nance’s apartment in an industrial hellscape. —Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025

There are chic collarless styles that are perfect for the Upper East Side-minded dresser to cool-asymmetrical designs that the downtown fashion crowd loves. —Laura Jackson, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

Noun (1)

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun (2)

1520, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing dresser

• dresser set
• Welsh dresser

Kids Definition

dresser

1 of 2 noun

dress·​er ˈdres-ər 

: a piece of furniture (as a chest or bureau) with a mirror

dresser

2 of 2 noun

: one that dresses

a fashionable dresser

Medical Definition

dresser

noun

dress·​er ˈdres-ər 

: a person who serves as a doctor's assistant especially in the dressing of lesions