/ˈkʌbəd/
Translation
A piece of furniture with doors and shelves, where you keep plates, food, or clothes.
Word origin
From Middle English cup and board, first a board or table for cups, later a closed store.
- Origin
- Middle English
- Root
- cup-board
Grammar
Examples
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"Cupboard" is the furniture with shelves where you keep things.
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"Cupboards" is the plural, meaning more than one cupboard.
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Here "cupboard" is the closed store with doors and shelves.
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