Lexic.us

Definition of Cupboard

1. Noun. A small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space.

Definition of Cupboard

1. n. A board or shelf for cups and dishes.

2. v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

Definition of Cupboard

1. Noun. An enclosed storage space with a door, usually having shelves, used to store crockery, food, etc. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) A table or sideboard on which to display or store cups, dishes etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cupboard

1. a cabinet [n -S] - See also: cabinet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupboard

Literary usage of Cupboard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"has a sideboard cupboard, twelve shillings, and a large cupboard chest with ... Mr. Paddy's large cupboard chest with drawers must have been similar in ..."

2. American Red Cross Text-book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick by Jane A. Delano, Isabel McIsaac, American National Red Cross, Anne Hervey Strong (1918)
"Household Medicine cupboard.—In every household a small cupboard is needed for medical and surgical supplies. Glass shelves are desirable, because they show ..."

3. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"I looked through every drawer and cupboard in my room and then asked Sir ... She wrote, " It is in the locked cupboard in the bookcase—hidden behind the ..."

4. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1911)
"She did not hop, or skip, or run, or jump, or use any other peripatetic artifice; she solely and merely went to the cupboard. We have seen that she was old ..."

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