Definition of Cupboard

Cupboard

A board or shelf for cups and dishes.

A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.

To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

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Cupboard Quotations

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Thomas Fuller

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
Dawn French

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
Arthur Keith

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
Penelope Lively

I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.
Greg Kinnear

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Cupboard Translations

cupboard in Afrikaans is kas
cupboard in Danish is skab
cupboard in Dutch is kast
cupboard in Finnish is kaappi
cupboard in French is balaise, armoire
cupboard in German is Geschirrschrank, Schrank
cupboard in Italian is armadio
cupboard in Latin is armarium
cupboard in Spanish is armario

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