cupboard

Etymology
Inherited from,. Equivalent to. Phonetic variants show that the /p/ in the original forms had assimilated to the present-day /b/ by the 16th century; the etymological spelling has, however, dominated from the 18th century.

Noun

 * 1)  A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet. 1
 * 2)  Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate. 1
 * ,, Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?; published in John Skelton; , The Poetical Works of John Skelton: With Notes, and Some Account of the Author and His Writings, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. In Two Volumes., volume II, London: , Great Newport Street, 1843, 733571702 , page 54, lines 897–904:
 * But howe comme to pas, / Your cupbord that was / Is tourned to glasse, / From syluere to brasse, / From golde to pewter, / Or els to a newter, / To copper, to tyn, / To lede, or alcumyn?
 * 1) A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
 * 2)  Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
 * 3) * c. 1665, ; published as J[oseph] W[oodfall] Ebsworth, editor, The Roxburghe Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts, volume VI, Hertford: Printed for the Ballad Society by S. Austin and Sons, 1871–1899, 13767296, page 529, lines 26–30:
 * Some men they [make] love for what they can get, / And 'tis certain there's many a Lubbard; / Will sigh and will pant, seeming ready to faint, / And all for the love of the cubbard, brave boys! / And all [for the love of the Cup-board].
 * 1)  A closet for storing coats.
 * 1)  Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
 * 2) * c. 1665, ; published as J[oseph] W[oodfall] Ebsworth, editor, The Roxburghe Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts, volume VI, Hertford: Printed for the Ballad Society by S. Austin and Sons, 1871–1899, 13767296, page 529, lines 26–30:
 * Some men they [make] love for what they can get, / And 'tis certain there's many a Lubbard; / Will sigh and will pant, seeming ready to faint, / And all for the love of the cubbard, brave boys! / And all [for the love of the Cup-board].
 * 1)  A closet for storing coats.
 * 1)  Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
 * 2) * c. 1665, ; published as J[oseph] W[oodfall] Ebsworth, editor, The Roxburghe Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts, volume VI, Hertford: Printed for the Ballad Society by S. Austin and Sons, 1871–1899, 13767296, page 529, lines 26–30:
 * Some men they [make] love for what they can get, / And 'tis certain there's many a Lubbard; / Will sigh and will pant, seeming ready to faint, / And all for the love of the cubbard, brave boys! / And all [for the love of the Cup-board].
 * 1)  A closet for storing coats.
 * 1)  A closet for storing coats.

Synonyms

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Hypernyms

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Translations

 * Afrikaans: kas
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: خِزَانَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: دلاب
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: আলমাৰী
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܘܿܠܵܒܟ̰ܵܐ
 * Asturian: almariu
 * Azerbaijani: şkaf
 * Basque: armairu
 * Belarusian: ша́фа
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: бюфе́т,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: aparador
 * Central Dusun: lamari
 * Chichewa: m'kabati
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 櫃
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish:
 * Standard Cornish: amary
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Emilian: armèri, armàri
 * Esperanto: ŝranko
 * Estonian: kapp
 * Farefare: kobɔɔtɩ
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, alacena,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Gänterli
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: (1,2), ארונית,
 * Hiligaynon: kabinet
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: škaappi
 * Irish: almóir, cupard, prios
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:, lemantun
 * Kalmyk: үкүг
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, promptuārium
 * Latvian: skapis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya: likapati
 * Macedonian: шкаф
 * Malay:, gerobok
 * Maori: kāpata
 * Mirandese: almairo
 * Norman: armouaithe
 * North Frisian: schååp
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Dari: الماری
 * Iranian Persian:, , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Schaup, Schrank
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: preas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: креденац
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, omarica, kredenca
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: spižka
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: paminggalan, binggal, aparador, platera
 * Tajik: ҷевон
 * Thai:, , ตู้อาหาร
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: şkaf
 * Ukrainian:, серва́нт, ша́фа
 * Urdu: الماری
 * Uyghur: ئىشكاپ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, tủ đựng chén, tủ búp phê,
 * Welsh:
 * West Flemish: kasse
 * Yakut: ыскаап
 * Yiddish: שאַפֿע, שאַפֿקע, וואַנטשאַפֿקע
 * Yup'ik: eskaapaq
 * Zulu: ekhabetheni


 * Bulgarian: бюфе́т
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: chineiro
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Javanese:, lemantun
 * Latin:
 * Ottoman Turkish: طولاب
 * Plautdietsch: Schaup, Schrank
 * Polish:, szafka kuchenna

Verb

 * 1) To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.