Definition of cupboard. Meaning of cupboard. Synonyms of cupboard

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Definition of cupboard

Cupboard
Cupboard Cup"board (k[u^]b"b[~e]rd), n. [Cup + board.] 1. A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet. Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. ``A cupboard love is seldom true.' --Poor Robin. [Colloq.] To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] ``My stomach cries cupboard.' --W. Irving.
Cupboard
Cupboard Cup"board, v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [R.] --Shak.

Meaning of cupboard from wikipedia

- A cupboard is a piece of furniture for enclosing dishware or grocery items that are stored in a home. The term gradually evolved from its original meaning:...
- Mammy's Cupboard (founded 1940) is a roadside restaurant built in the shape of a mammy archetype, located on US Highway 61 south of Natchez, Mississippi...
- The Indian in the Cupboard is a low fantasy children's novel by the British writer Lynne Reid Banks. It was published in 1980 with illustrations by Robin...
- The Indian in the Cupboard is a 1995 American family fantasy film directed by Frank Oz and written by Melissa Mathison, based on the 1980 children's book...
- The Broom Cupboard may refer to: "The Broom Cupboard", episode of The Unit (season 2) The Broom Cupboard, former studio presentation for the BBC Children's...
- Cupboard love is a po****r learning theory of the 1950s and 1960s based on the research of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Mary Ainsworth...
- closet or skeleton in the cupboard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Skeleton in the Closet or Skeleton in the Cupboard may refer to: Skeleton in the...
- Skeleton in the closet or skeleton in the cupboard is a colloquial phrase and idiom used to describe an undisclosed fact about someone which, if revealed...
- A bathroom cabinet is a cabinet in a bathroom, most often used to store hygiene products, toiletries, and sometimes also medications such that it works...
- A fume hood (sometimes called a fume cupboard or fume closet) is a type of local exhaust ventilation device that is designed to limit exposure to hazardous...