Cupboard
The term cupboard was originally used to describe an open-shelved side table for displaying dishware, more specifically plates, cups and saucers. These open cupboards typically had between one and three display tiers, and at the time, a drawer or multiple drawers fitted to them. The word cupboard gradually came to mean a closed piece of furniture.
The word cupboard is also frequently used in British English to denote what North Americans would call a closet.
Cabinet (noun)
A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
Cabinet (noun)
A cupboard.
Cabinet (noun)
The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game.
Cabinet (noun)
A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞” by 5½”.
Cabinet (noun)
A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
Cabinet (noun)
In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
Cabinet (noun)
A small chamber or private room.
Cabinet (noun)
(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
Cabinet (noun)
Milkshake.
Cabinet (noun)
A hut; a cottage; a small house.
Cupboard (noun)
A used to buffet.
Cupboard (noun)
Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate.
Cupboard (noun)
A storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
“Put the cups back into the cupboard.”
Cupboard (noun)
Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
Cupboard (verb)
To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. from 16th century.