Definitions for cupboard

cupboard cup·board

Spelling: [kuhb-erd]
IPA: /ˈkʌb ərd/

Cupboard is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 281 anagrams from letters in cupboard (abcdopru).

Definitions for cupboard

noun

  1. a closet with shelves for dishes, cups, etc.
  2. Chiefly British. any small closet or cabinet, as for clothes, food, or the like.

Origin of cupboard

First recorded in 1275-1325, cupboard is from the Middle English word cuppebord. See cup, board

Examples for cupboard

It had also that peculiar smell of cupboard which seems to come of poverty.

It was the neatest, best-stored Ritualistic cupboard in Bumsteadville.

Ginger returned the china to the cupboard and sat next to him on the sofa.

Why, for all I know, there may be one of them under that bed, inside that cupboard.

But she had started like digging out vases from the cupboard, like wedding stuff.

Lyddy stood by the cupboard, lookin' straight at the glass spoon-holder.

Now this cupboard had been the lumber-room in Caleb's household.

One cold night, Isabel finds an old Royal Air Force greatcoat in the cupboard and pulls it into bed to warm herself.

Orphaned Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) lives with his aunt and uncle, and sleeps in a cupboard under the stars.

If and when CRE becomes resistant to this old-timer, the cupboard is truly bare.

Word Value for cupboard
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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