cupboard

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cup·board /ˈkʌbəd $ -ərd/ S2 noun [countableC]

1 DHFa piece of furniture with doors, and sometimes shelves, used for storing clothes, plates, food etc 橱柜；衣柜；碗柜，食品柜 → closet, wardrobe, cabinet

It’s in the kitchen cupboard.

它在厨房的碗柜里。

The cupboard doors were open.

柜门开着。

2 the cupboard is bare used to say that there is no money etc left that can be used 钱囊已经空了，钱已用完

The workers have been told not to expect a pay rise because the cupboard is bare.

工人们被告知不要指望加薪，因为他们已经囊空如洗。

→ airing cupboard, → skeleton in the cupboard at skeleton(5)

n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 1 : a piece of furniture with doors, and sometimes shelves, used for storing clothes, plates, food etc

types of cupboard

a kitchen cupboard

The kitchen cupboards were empty.

a bathroom/hall/bedroom cupboard British EnglishBrE

Your boots are in the hall cupboard.

a built-in/fitted cupboard British EnglishBrE (=ones that are there permanently and cannot be moved)

The kitchen has built-in cupboards.

a wall cupboard British EnglishBrE (=fixed to the wall, not on the floor)

Wall cupboards provide extra storage in the garage.

a storage cupboard British EnglishBrE (=for storing things)

There's a storage cupboard under the stairs.

a food/medicine/clothes cupboard British EnglishBrE

The medicine cupboard's in the bathroom.

a drinks cupboard British EnglishBrE (=for drinks, especially alcoholic ones)

He went to the drinks cupboard and poured a whisky.

an airing cupboard British EnglishBrE (=a warm cupboard for sheets and towels)

a linen cupboard British EnglishBrE (=for sheets and towels)

a broom cupboard (=for brushes and other things you use to clean the house)

a bedside cupboard British EnglishBrE (=a small cupboard beside a bed)

Examples from the Corpus

cupboard• Older gardening books may recommend a cool cupboard indoors for plunging.• Donorlabeled cupboards filled with shallow drawers of shells line one side of the upstairs office area.• So the Wicked Witch took the Golden Cap from her cupboard and placed it upon her head.• There was, in her cupboard, a Golden Cap, with a circle of diamonds and rubies running round it.• Inspectors told of finding a sickening harvest of leaves, grease and dead insects in cupboards and drawers.• Above it, on the wall itself, were great tea-chest-sized oak cupboards.• There's a lot of cupboard space in this kitchen.• Or you could line the walls with bookshelves from waist-level, with cupboards underneath to provide storage and serving space.

Origin cupboard

(1500-1600) cupboard “shelf or table for cups” ((14-18 centuries))

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