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What (who) is cupboard - definition
CLOSED OR OPEN-SHELVED SIDE TABLE FOR DISPLAYING DISHWARE, MORE SPECIFICALLY PLATES, CUPS AND SAUCERS
Airing cupboard; Boiler cupboard; Cubbard; Stationery cabinet; Stationary cabinet; Stationary cupboard; Stationery cupboard; Storage cabinet; Cup board; Cupboards; Cup boards
![[[Cups]] in a cupboard.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/-99wiki.jpg?width=200 "[[Cups]] in a cupboard.")
![Built-in cupboard: A cupboard built into the wall of St James's Church, [[Whitechapel, Lancashire]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/St James's Church, Whitechapel, Cupboard door - geograph.org.uk - 913360.jpg?width=200 "Built-in cupboard: A cupboard built into the wall of St James's Church, [[Whitechapel, Lancashire]]")
![Antique cupboard: English [[livery]] cupboard approximately 1600 to 1640](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LiveryCupboard.JPG?width=200 "Antique cupboard: English [[livery]] cupboard approximately 1600 to 1640")
cupboard
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1.
A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet
is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
The kitchen cupboard was stocked with tins of soup and food.
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2.
A cupboard is a very small room that is used to store things, especially one without windows. (BRIT; in AM, use closet
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cupboard
n.
Buffet, china-closet, closet.
cupboard
¦ noun a piece of furniture or small recess with a door and usually shelves, used for storage.
Phrases
cupboard love Brit. affection that is feigned so as to obtain something.
Origin
ME (denoting a table or sideboard on which cups, plates, etc. were displayed).
Wikipedia
Cupboard
A cupboard is a piece of furniture for enclosing dishware or grocery items that are stored in a home. The term gradually evolved from its original meaning: an open-shelved side table for displaying dishware, more specifically plates, cups and saucers.
Examples of use of cupboard
1. Also conspicuous in the show are an ornamental hairpin etuis, mirror stand, cupboard, stationery cupboard and ink–stone table.
2. The activities cupboard contained a single annual.
3. "The truth is that all analysts, even liberal analysts, looked in the cupboard for ideas to push after Katrina, and the cupboard was bare.
4. "They saw the cupboard but did not recognize their brother.
5. I asked, indicating a cupboard door near the exit.