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Definition: Cupboard |
CupboardNoun1. A small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cupboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To see a cupboard in your dream, is significant of pleasure and comfort, or penury and distress, according as the cupboard is clean and full of shining ware, or empty and dirty. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CupboardSynonym: closet (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cupboard |
| English words defined with "cupboard": airing cupboard, Ambry, Ascham ♦ bare, Beaufet ♦ Cupboard love ♦ safe, stripped ♦ To cry cupboard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cupboard": BEEF EATER ♦ Dwarf Storage Unit ♦ skeleton framing ♦ toeboard. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cupboard": Ambry. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness courtesy of whoever I swiped it from out of the cupboard. Couldn't find any marshmallows (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) There's too much nudity in the cupboard. (Coupling; writing credit: Steven Moffat) | |
Lyrics | She took what I had my cupboard bare (Want Not Want Not; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cupboard (1967) Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard (1941) The Family Cupboard (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Figure 49 (cont.) Bamberg sounding machine, detail of accessory cupboard. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Pergola, cupboard, and tent platform are standard equipment of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Brawley, Imperial County, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cupboard in Eldorado, Illinois residence. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Louis H. Engel, residence in Carversville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Dining room, to cupboard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dr. A.S. Barnes, "Ker-Feal", residence in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. Cupboard and chest. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Soupcon, business at 203 E. 61st St., New York City. Cupboard, artificial light. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Richard Wheelwright, residence in Riverside, Connecticut. Dining room, to cupboard. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Marlpit Hall, Middletown, New Jersey. Cupboard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Electric Institute of Washington. Woman vacuuming cupboard. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Furniture and other home furnishings. Carved wood cupboard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Self-made" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "Screw cupboard in the house of an ancient coach builder - made by hand." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | After a minute he came slowly out again, looking very grave, and carefully shut the cupboard door after him. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Just as they were passing through this room Madame Magloire was putting up the silver in the cupboard at the head of the bed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Cupboard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.16% of the time. "Cupboard" is used about 1,428 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.16% | 1,416 | 5,678 |
| Noun (common) | 0.77% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,428 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cupboard": a skeleton in the cupboard ♦ airing cupboard ♦ corner cupboard ♦ cupboard love ♦ drying cupboard ♦ especial closed cupboard for dairy produce ♦ kitchen cupboard ♦ linen cupboard ♦ poison cupboard ♦ skeleton in the cupboard ♦ store cupboard ♦ tall cupboard ♦ To cry cupboard ♦ wall cupboard ♦ warming cupboard. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cupboard": cupboard-full, cupboard-lined, Cupboard-love, cupboard-under-the-stairs. | |
Ending with "cupboard": airing-cupboard, store-cupboard. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cupboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kas (cabinet, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Albanian | raft (press, rack, shelf), dollap rrobash (wardrobe), bufe (bar, buffet, cabinet, canteen, dresser, hutch, refreshment room, sideboard). (various references) | |
Arabic | صوان (commode, flint, granite, pavilion), خزانة صغيرة, خزانة (cabinet, case, closet, locker, safe deposit, wardrobe). (various references) | |
Basque | armairu (closet). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | iitáísokohko'so'p. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бюфет (buffet, refreshment room, refreshment table, sideboard). (various references) | |
Catalan | armari (cabinet, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Chamorro | tapblita. (various references) | |
Chinese | 碗柜, 碗櫃 , 柜 (cabinet, Salix multinervis, wardrobe), 櫃子 (cabinet), 櫃 (cabinet, wardrobe). (various references) | |
Cornish | a·mary. (various references) | |
Czech | kredenc (china closet, kitchen cupboard, sideboard, side-board). (various references) | |
Danish | skab (cabinet, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Dutch | kast (cabinet, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝranko (cabinet, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skáp (cabinet, closet, locker, sideboard). (various references) | |
Farsi | قفسه (Cabinet, Wardrobe), گنجه ظروف غذاوغیره , گنجه (Closet). (various references) | |
Finnish | kaappi (bookcase, cabinet, closet, sideboard, wardrobe). (various references) | |
French | armoire. (various references) | |
German | Schrank (bookcase, cabinet, closet, console, cubicle, locker, sideboard, wardrobe). (various references) | |
Greek | ντουλάπι (cabinet, closet, pantry). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מגדל (pulpit, tower, turret), ארון (cabinet, closet, locker). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szekrény (armoire, body, cabinet, case, chest, closet, press, sideboard, wardrobe), konyhaszekrény (cabinet, dresser, kitchen cabinet, wall unit). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lemari (cabinet, locker). (various references) | |
Italian | armadio (cabinet, closet, sideboard, wardrobe). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 食器棚. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょっきだな (sideboard), カップボード , げたばこ (shoe rack), みずや (purificatory font at shrines and temples, vendor of drinking water), とだな (closet, locker, wardrobe). (various references) | |
Korean | 찬장 (sideboard). (various references) | |
Manx | cuilleig hashtee, cubbyrt. (various references) | |
Maori | kaapata. (various references) | |
Mohawk | tsi yeksayentahkwa. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjøkkendisk. (various references) | |
Occitan | armari (closet). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kashi (cabinet, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | upboardcay.(various references) | |
Polish | szafa (cabinet, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Portuguese | armário (ambry, cabinet, closet, cuddy, sideboard, wardrobe), guarda-louça (ambry, china-closet, cuddy, lumber-room, lunch counter, sideboard). (various references) | |
Romanian | colţar (boss, corner, crampon, quoin, Square, triangle), dulap (board, cabinet, case, chest, closet, glass case, plank, press, sideboard, swing boat, wardrobe), bufet (bar, buffet, cabinet, canteen, closet, luncheon bar, provision room, refectory, road house, sideboard, taproom). (various references) | |
Romansch | stgaffa. (various references) | |
Romany | dolàp. (various references) | |
Russian | шкаф (cabinet, closet, locker, rack cabinet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Scottish | preasa (cabinet, closet, sideboard), amraidh, àmraidh. (various references) | |
Sepedi | raka. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kredenac (cabinet, kitchen cabinet). (various references) | |
Sicilian | armadiu. (various references) | |
Spanish | armario (cabinet, closet, locker, sideboard, wardrobe). (various references) | |
Sranan | kasi (cabinet, cheese, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Swahili | kabati (cabinet, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
Swedish | skåp (cabinet, closet, locker, sideboard). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüklük (closet), dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cuddy, dodge, dope, doubling, flimflam, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, ramp, repository, ruse, sell, trap, wardrobe, water wheel, wile), büfe (buffet, coffee shop, commissary, dresser, kiosk, kiosque, lunch counter, refreshment room, sideboard, soda fountain). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юkaf (r) (wardrobe). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стінна шафа, сервант (sideboard), буфет (buffet, canteen, china closet, snack bar). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thấy đói, inside. (various references) | |
Welsh | cwpwrdd (cabinet, closet, sideboard). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | armarium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cupboard": cupboards. (additional references) | |
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"Cupboard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cuboard, cueboard, cupboardful, cupbroad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cupboard" (pronounced ku"berd) |
| 3 | -b er d | belabored, blackbird, chambered, clambered, clobbered, labored, dismembered, encumbered, harbored, membered, misremembered, numbered, outnumbered, remembered, scabbard, sobered, starboard, unencumbered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-o-p-r-u" | |
-3 letters: board, broad, carbo, carob, cobra, copra, croup, dobra, doura, duroc, proud, purda. | |
-4 letters: apod, arco, bard, baud, boar, bora, brad, bura, burd, burp, capo, carb, card, carp, coda, cord, coup, crab, crap, crop, crud, curb, curd, darb, daub, dopa, dorp, dour, drab, drop, drub, dura, duro, orad, orca, pard, pour, prao, prau. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-o-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: cupboards. | |
+2 letters: punchboard. | |
+3 letters: punchboards. | |
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