Cupboard
['kʌbəd] or ['kʌbɚd]
Definition
(noun.) a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space.
Typed by Hiram--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A board or shelf for cups and dishes.
(n.) A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.
(v. t.) To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
Checker: Zachariah
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Buffet.
Typed by Arlene
Unserious Contents or Definition
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. See Safe.
Typed by Agatha
Examples
- Moore rose and opened a cupboard. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Selden was rummaging in a cupboard for the cake. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Christian, maul down the victuals from corner-cupboard if canst reach, man, and I'll draw a drap o' sommat to wet it with. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Perhaps the skeleton in the cupboard comes out to be talked to, on such domestic occasions? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This was all--no cupboard, none of the amenities of life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Upon a shelf in an open cupboard were a plate or two, a cup or two, and so forth, but all dry and empty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Ben, my fine fellow, put your hand into the cupboard, and bring out the patent digester. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There is a skeleton in your cupboard here at Blackwater Park that has peeped out in these last few days at other people besides yourself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And he shuffled across the room to a cupboard, from which he took a little old case containing jewels of some value. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When I was a youngster I have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This bureau consists of a double column of drawers, with a central small cupboard between them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I had just taken the paper; and was locking the cupboard, when the young man seized me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Quickly he ran to the cupboard and searched in the far recess of the lower shelf. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- 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. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Ursula put away her things in the cupboard. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Tarzan rose, and, going to one of the cupboards, returned with a well-thumbed geography. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Cupboards and bookcases lined the walls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was hunting everywhere for heretics as timid old ladies are said to look under beds and in cupboards for burglars before retiring for the night. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was during this period that the young English lord found hidden in the back of one of the cupboards in the cabin a small metal box. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This was another of her ways of forming a mind--to cram all articles of difficulty into cupboards, lock them up, and say they had no existence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He opened chests and cupboards, such as did not baffle his small experience, and in these he found the contents much better preserved. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Inputed by Gretchen