CUPBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cupboard mean? 

• CUPBOARD (noun)
  The noun CUPBOARD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CUPBOARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUPBOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

closet; cupboard

Hypernyms ("cupboard" is a kind of...):

storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cupboard"):

airing cupboard (a warm cupboard where you put newly washed clothes until they are completely dry)

broom closet (a small room for storing brooms and other cleaning equipment)

safe (a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests)

supply closet (a closet for storing supplies)

 Context examples 

He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he squeezed out the pips upon the table.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He found that papers were kept in the cupboard, and he got an impression of the key.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wind blows through one of the cupboards just in the same way.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I kept another small loaf, and a modicum of cheese, on a particular shelf of a particular cupboard, to make my supper on when I came back at night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was, in her cupboard, a Golden Cap, with a circle of diamonds and rubies running round it.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

From a cupboard he had brought an old cigar-box, and this he laid before him on the table.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Never mind,” he said, “I have larger maps upstairs in the cupboard, we will look on those,” but they searched in vain, for the castle was not marked even on these.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She vanished into her cupboard, and came out with a bottle and glass, which she placed upon the table.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Swiftly and methodically Holmes turned over the contents of drawer after drawer and cupboard after cupboard, but no gleam of success came to brighten his austere face.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Come now, don't lay it all on yourself. You know I proposed the cupboard," broke in Snodgrass, who was enjoying the joke amazingly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)