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# cupboard

«cupboard» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of furniture or a space in a wall with doors and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cupboard, cupboards)

### meaning for a pupil

A cupboard is a piece of furniture or a space in a wall with doors and shelves, where you keep cups, plates, food or clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a place where things are stored, sometimes with shelves and things on each shelf (shelves × items each = total; what is left = total − taken); everyday life: kitchen cupboard, the food cupboard; safety: cleaning things belong in a high or locked cupboard; stories: something hiding in the cupboard

### examples

- There are 24 cups in the cupboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#x1)
- The cupboard has 4 shelves with 6 plates on each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#x2)
- She took 3 cans from the cupboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#x3)
- How many jars are left in the cupboard? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#x4)
- Put the plates back in the cupboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#x5)
- The cereal is in the top cupboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#x6)
- Cleaning sprays are kept in a locked cupboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#x7)
- Close the cupboard door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#x8)
- I have a whole cupboard-full of poetry in bottles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/#x9)

### note

Mostly a place; shelves × items on each give a total. Trap: none special. The p is silent: say «KUB-urd». US English often says «cabinet»; British «cupboard» can also mean a closet.

### In the corpora

- [Mum opens the cupboard and finds tiny dark droppings like grains of rice and a chewed hole in the cereal packet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/0/)
- [The sides of the well were filled with cupboards and book-shelves, with maps and pictures hung on pegs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/13/)
- [You should never hide under a bed or in a cupboard during a fire, because firefighters may not find you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/23/)
- [Rooms you are not invited into and cupboards are private.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/10/)
- [To reach a high cupboard, use a steady step stool or ask someone tall, never a wheeled chair or the counter edge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cupboard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupboard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.