cupboard

See also cup, and board

English

Wikipedia

A cupboard.

Etymology

From Middle English cuppebord.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈkʌb.əd/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkʌ.bɚd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌbə(r)d

Noun

cupboard (plural cupboards)

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

   Put the cups in the cupboard.

   • 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, Friday's Business^[1]:

     Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor.

   • 1997, J. K. Rowling, “The Vanishing Glass”, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone:

     Harry was used to spiders, because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept.

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

Synonyms

• closet
• press
• wardrobe (British)

Derived terms

• airing cupboard
• cupboardlike
• cupboard love
• cupboardy
• fume cupboard
• hot cupboard
• skeleton in the cupboard

Translations

enclosed storage

• Arabic: خِزانة (ar) (khizaana(t)) m

  Egyptian Arabic: دلاب (dulaab) m

• Armenian: պահարան (hy) (paharan)
• Bulgarian: бюфет (bg) (bjufet) m, шкаф (bg) (škaf) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 櫥櫃 (cmn), 橱柜 (cmn) (chúguì), 櫃子 (cmn), 柜子 (cmn) (guìzi), 碗櫃 (cmn), 碗柜 (cmn) (wǎnguì)

• Czech: skříň (cs)
• Dutch: kast (nl) f
• Finnish: astiakaappi (fi), kaappi (fi)
• French: armoire (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schrank (de) m
• Greek: ντουλάπι (el) (dulápi) n, σκευοθήκη (el) (skjevothíkji) f
• Hebrew: ארון משקאות (he) m (aron mashqa'ot) (1,2)
• Hiligaynon: kabinet
• Hindi: अलमारी (hi) (almārī) f
• Hungarian: szekrény (hu)
• Ido: armoro (io)
• Indonesian: lemari (id)

• Italian: armadio (it) m, credenza (it) f
• Japanese: 食器棚 (ja) (しょっきだな, shokki-dana)
• Jèrriais: armouaithe f
• Korean: 찬장 (ko) (chanjang), 벽장 (ko) (byeogjang)
• Lithuanian: spinta (lt) f
• Luhya: likapati
• Norwegian: skap (no) n
• Persian: گنجه (fa)
• Polish: szafa (pl) f
• Portuguese: armário (pt)
• Russian: шкаф (ru) (škaf) m, буфет (ru) (bufét) m
• Scottish Gaelic: preas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: kredenac (sh) m
• Spanish: armario (es) m, vitrina (es) f, alacena (es) f
• Swahili: kabati (sw)
• Thai: ตู้ (th) (dtôo), ตู้กับข้าว (th) (dtôo gàp kâao), ตู้อาหาร (th) (dtôo aa-hăan)
• Turkish: dolap (tr)
• Urdu: الماری (ur) (almārī) f
• Uzbek: shkaf (uz)
• Vietnamese: tủ (vi), tủ đựng chén (vi), tủ búp phê (vi)

See also

• armoire
• sideboard

Verb

cupboard (third-person singular simple present cupboards, present participle cupboarding, simple past and past participle cupboarded)

1. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)