English Dictionary

cupboard

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkʌb.əd/

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet. [14th–18th c.]

日本語の意味

食器や銀皿などを飾って置くための家具、特に、食器棚やサイドボードとして用いられる（古風な意味合い）。

In the great hall, the ancestral cupboard held gleaming silver and porcelain for all to admire.

大広間では、先祖代々の食器陳列棚にきらめく銀器や磁器が飾られ、皆が見入っていた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet. [14th–18th c.]

Cupboꝛde of plate or to ſette plate upon buffet z ma.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate. [16th–19th c.]

But howe comme to pas, / Your cupbord that was / Is tourned to glasse, / From syluere to brasse, / From golde to pewter, / Or els to a newter, / To copper, to tyn, / To lede, or alcumyn?

意味（3）

A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.

Put the cups back into the cupboard.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.

Some men they [make] love for what they can get, / And 'tis certain there's many a Lubbard; / Will sigh and will pant, seeming ready to faint, / And all for the love of the cubbard, brave boys! / And all [for the love of the Cup-board].

cupboards （ plural ）