cupboard

1. 1.

   a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

   Synonymscloset

   Broaderstorage space

   Narrowerairing cupboardbroom closetsafesupply closet

Other forms of cupboard

plural

cupboards·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cupboard

What does cupboard mean?

cupboard means "a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space".

How many syllables are in cupboard?

cupboard has 2 syllables: cup-board. The stress falls on "cup". In IPA it is /ˈkʌbɚd/.

What is another word for cupboard?

Close synonyms include closet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cupboard a common word?

cupboard is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.