: a closet with shelves where dishes, utensils, or food is kept
also
: a small closet
Examples of cupboard in a Sentence
the colonial dining room features a double-door corner cupboard for the family's finest china
dishes go in the cupboard next to the sink
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Little Free Libraries, the charming small cupboards of free books perched outside participants’ home, have over 200,000 participants worldwide and over 1,300 in Tennessee alone.
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Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Oct. 2025
Underneath the stairs at the couple's home was a small cupboard, but behind the little door was actually a reasonable amount of unused space.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
The storage cupboard is only knee-high and set at an angle with a latch to prevent it from knocking open on rolling seas.
—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s a man standing with an ax, who has just chopped up a custom vintage antique cupboard.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2025
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Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Oct. 2025
Underneath the stairs at the couple's home was a small cupboard, but behind the little door was actually a reasonable amount of unused space.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
The storage cupboard is only knee-high and set at an angle with a latch to prevent it from knocking open on rolling seas.
—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s a man standing with an ax, who has just chopped up a custom vintage antique cupboard.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cupboard
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“Cupboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cupboard. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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cupboard
noun
cup·board
ˈkəb-ərd 
: a closet with shelves for cups, dishes, or food
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