cubicle
pronunciation
How to pronounce cubicle in British English:
UK [ˈkju:bɪkl]
How to pronounce cubicle in American English:
US [ˈkjubɪkəl]
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- Noun:
- small room is which a monk or nun lives
- small individual study area in a library
- small area set off by walls for special use
Word Origin
- cubicle
- cubicle: see concubine
- cubicle (n.)
- mid-15c., "bedroom," from Latin cubiculum "bedroom," from cubare "to lie down," originally "bend oneself," from PIE root *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." With Latin -clom, suffix denoting place. Obsolete from 16c. but revived 19c. for "dormitory sleeping compartment," sense of "any partitioned space" (such as a library carrel or, later, office work station) is first recorded 1926.
Example
- 1. Mr otellini has a corner cubicle next to the windows .
- 2. Sure , you can create great things in a laundry room or a closet ( I wrote my first ebook on a couch and in a grey cubicle ) , but it 's not ideal .
- 3. Work in a different cubicle if your work has free and easy seating .
- 4. This is the strategy that many people use , particularly in cubicle land .
- 5. The great majority of programmers still go straight from college to cubicle , and stay there .