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English
A locker (#1) in a Japanese railway station
Etymology
From lock (lock + -er (patient suffix) or -er (agent noun suffix)) from Old English loc (“fastening, enclosure”), from Proto-Germanic *luką. Cognate with German Loch, Dutch luik, and Dutch loket.
Pronunciation
Noun
locker (plural lockers)
- A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers.
The student placed her books in her locker when she arrived at school.
- A lockable cubicle.
She was afraid to come out of the locker.
- A storage compartment on a ship, not necessarily one that can be locked.
- (rare) One who locks something.
The locker of the trapped chest must be careful, so as not to spring the trap.
- (automotive) A locking differential.
- (historical) A customs officer who guards a warehouse.
1845, Reports of cases argued and determined in the courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber, volume 12:The actual delivery of the goods is then effected by any person bearing an order from the importer, called a merchant's order, and addressed to the warehouse-keeper, upon the presentment of which the warehouseman delivers the goods, having previously obtained the signature of the locker to it as a proof that the duties have been paid […]
- (Louisiana) A closet.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
storage compartment
- Afrikaans: sluitkas
- Armenian: պահարան (hy) (paharan)
- Bulgarian: шкафче (bg) n (škafče)
- Catalan: armari (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鎖櫃/锁柜 (suǒguì)
- Danish: skab (da) n
- Esperanto: ŝlosujo, ŝranko, ŝranketo
- Finnish: lukkokaappi, kaappi (fi), lukkolokero, lokero (fi)
- French: casier (fr) m consigne automatique (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Spind (de) m, Schließfach (de) n
- Hindi: लाकर (hi) m (lākar), कपाट (hi) m (kapāṭ)
- Hungarian: szekrény (hu), öltözőszekrény (hu), fach (hu)
- Italian: armadietto m
- Japanese: 戸棚 (ja) (とだな, todana), ロッカー (ja) (rokkā)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: skap (no) n
- Polish: bakista (pl) f (on a ship)
- Portuguese: armário (pt), cacifo (pt) m, escaninho (pt) m
- Russian: (запирающийся) шка́фчик (ru) m (škáfčik), (запирающийся) я́щик (ru) m (jáščik), рунду́к (ru) m (rundúk) (nautical)
- Spanish: armario (es) m, casillero m, locker (es) m (Latin America), taquilla (es) f
- Thai: ตู้ฝากของ
- Turkish: dolap (tr)
- Ukrainian: ша́фка f (šáfka)
- Vietnamese: tủ khóa
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See also
Further reading
- “locker”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “locker”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “locker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “locker”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English locker.
Pronunciation
Noun
locker m (plural lockers, diminutive lockertje n)
- a locker (lockable storage compartment)
- Synonym: kluis
German
Etymology
From an adjectival form of Middle High German lücke / lugge, with further origin uncertain; perhaps related to Lücke and Loch.
Pronunciation
Adjective
locker (strong nominative masculine singular lockerer, comparative lockerer, superlative am lockersten)
- loose
- relaxed
- Synonym: entspannt
- Antonym: verkrampft
Declension
Comparative forms of locker
Superlative forms of locker
Adverb
locker
- loosely
- relaxedly, casually
- (with an estimate) easily (expressing confidence in the value)
Es waren locker hundert Leute auf der Party.- There were easily a hundred people at the party.
Verb
locker
- inflection of lockern:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English locker.
Pronunciation
Noun
locker m (plural lockeres)
- (Latin America) locker
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.