1 a piece of furniture with doors and shelves used for storing dishes, food, clothes, etc:
kitchen cupboards
2 (BrE) (AmE closet) a space in a wall with a door that reaches the ground, used for storing things:
built-in cupboards
seealsoAIRINGCUPBOARD, BROOMCUPBOARD
IDIOMS
the cupboard is bare (BrE) used to say that there is no money for sth:
They are seeking more funds but the cupboard is bare.
cupboard love (BrE) affection that sb, especially a child, shows towards sb else in order to get sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cupboard is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is cupboard a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cupboard is tagged as noun.
Does cupboard appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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