cupboard
pronunciation
How to pronounce cupboard in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce cupboard in American English:
US
Word Origin
- cupboard
- cupboard: [14] A cupboard was originally exactly that: a ‘board’, or table, on which cups (and other pieces of crockery or plate) were placed for display. Essentially, it was what we would now call a sideboard. The modern sense, ‘recess with doors and shelves’, did not develop until the 16th century. (An earlier, and now largely superseded, term for ‘cupboard’ was press [14]. Cabinet is roughly contemporary with cupboard in its modern sense, and closet developed this meaning in the 17th century.)
- cupboard (n.)
- late 14c., "a board or table to place cups and like objects," from cup (n.) + board (n.1). As a type of closed cabinet for food, etc., from early 16c.
Example
- 1. She inspected the cupboard and saw new things among the old .
- 2. Use fewer commercial products ; instead , turn to your kitchen cupboard for beauty concoctions .
- 3. At home the shoes were put into the cupboard , but karen could not help looking at them .
- 4. She carefully put the tray back into the cupboard - in other dishes to come , it has separate space .
- 5. For instance , dr. szymanski told me , he likes all the glasses in his kitchen cupboard lined up a certain way .