Thesaurus results for CABINET

cabinet

noun

ˈkab-nit

Definition of cabinet

as in cupboard

a storage case typically having doors and shelves the most precious knickknacks were kept in a cabinet with glass doors

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Recent Examples of cabinet Open shelving or racks provide easy access to your things and can make a room feel brighter and more open than spaces with hidden or closed storage like cabinets or drawers. — Jolie Kerr, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2026 Implementing just a few easy tips can help ensure your reusable containers are never again lidless and that your cabinet isn’t cluttered with matchless extras. — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 16 Aug. 2026 Donald Trump‘s ruse of hiding in an airport catering truck to secretly switch planes and evade a potential Iranian missile, leaving unwitting reporters and some White House staffers and cabinet members in the threatened Air Force One. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026 Another seven poop pellets sat in a cabinet drawer under the front counter cash register. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cabinet

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Noun

Prior to the Hoosier cabinet, a kitchen area would have some shelves, a separate work table and a corner cupboard.

— John Raby, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
In smaller apartment or townhouse renovations, homeowners sometimes rely on overhead cupboards instead.

— Natasha Bazika, Martha Stewart, 31 July 2026

Definition of cupboard

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Our linen closet has long doubled as a medicine station — stocked with bronchodilators, pinworm pills, antiviral medication, pain relief patches, pulse oximeters and nebulizers, vials of Prednisone, even EpiPen injectors.

— Allan Ripp, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
There was a closet full of phones people had thrown at the wall and dents in the drywall nobody ever explained.

— Jeff Rabhan, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of closet

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Greene doesn’t have to look farther than across the clubhouse at Great American Ball Park, where Antone’s locker resides.

— C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
Taped to the glass divider of Ryan McMahon’s locker, a drawing of Trent Grisham stares at the Yankees’ clubhouse.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026

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