Synonyms for
Cupboard
Definition
a cabinet with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying dishes, food, or other items
Synonyms & similar words
Synonyms by register
Antonyms
Common collocations
- kitchen cupboard
- wall cupboard
- cupboard door
- open the cupboard
- clean out the cupboard
- cupboard space
- cupboard under the stairs
Word family
noun cupboard
Usage note
A cupboard is a piece of furniture with doors and shelves used for storage. It is typically found in kitchens or bedrooms. The term 'cupboard' is generally neutral in register.
Example sentences
- I opened the cupboard to get a glass.
- My mom keeps the cookies in the cupboard.
- The dishes are organized in the cupboard.
- The cupboard is too small for all of our dishes.
- The cupboard is empty except for a few cans.
Quotes
My mother always told me to clean the cupboard and the refrigerator because otherwise, if you have bad food, it's like mixed with the good and you eat the bad, so I always clean everything.
My mother would put me to bed early, and I would try to read by the light in the hallway outside our bedroom door, and I could hear her typing on the typewriter in the dining room down at the end of the hall, and I would get up and go down and watch her type, because it looked like magic, you know, with her fingers flying over the keys of the typewriter, and I thought, 'I want to do that.' And I would go back to bed, and I would lie there and I could hear the sound of the typewriter, and I would start to make up stories in my head, and eventually, I would get up and try to write them down. And that's how I started writing.
I'm always interested in the ordinary versus the extraordinary. The ordinary being what we take for granted, and the extraordinary being what people do with the ordinary things in their lives. Like how some people fold their clothes, or how some people organize their cupboards, or how some people make a sandwich.