Cupboard vs. Closet

Cupboardnoun

(obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet.

Cupboardnoun

(obsolete) Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate.

Cupboardnoun

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.

Cupboardnoun

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

Cupboardverb

To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

Cupboardnoun

A board or shelf for cups and dishes.

Cupboardnoun

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

Cupboardverb

To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

Cupboardnoun

a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

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.

Closetnoun

(obsolete) Any private area, particularly bowers in the open air.

Closetnoun

Any private or inner room, particularly:

Closetnoun

(obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.

Closetnoun

(archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.

Closetnoun

A place of (usually fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.

Closetnoun

(archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.

Closetnoun

(obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.

Closetnoun

A private cabinet, particularly:

Closetnoun

(obsolete) One used to store valuables.

Closetnoun

(archaic) One used to store curiosities.

Closetnoun

One used to store food or other household supplies: a cupboard.

Closetnoun

(figuratively) A secret or hiding place, particularly the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.

Closetnoun

Any small room or side-room, particularly:

Closetnoun

(US) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.

Closetnoun

(obsolete) nodot=a or later (UK) water closet: a room containing a toilet.

Closetnoun

(heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.

Closetnoun

A sewer.

Closetadjective

(obsolete) Private.

Closetadjective

Secret, especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet; closeted.

Closetverb

(transitive) To shut away for private discussion.

Closetverb

(transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.

Closetverb

(transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

Closetnoun

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

Closetnoun

A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.

Closetverb

To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

Closetverb

To make into a closet for a secret interview.

Closetnoun

a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

Closetnoun

a toilet in England

Closetnoun

a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

Closetnoun

a small private room for study or prayer

Closetverb

confine to a small space, as for intensive work

Closetadjective

(of information) given in confidence or in secret;

Closetadjective

indulging only covertly;

Closetnoun

a tall cupboard or wardrobe with a door, used for storage

Closetnoun

a small room, especially one used for storing things or for private study.

Closetnoun

short for water closet

Closetnoun

used to refer to a state of secrecy or concealment, especially about one's homosexuality

Closetadjective

secret; covert

Closetverb

shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study

Closet

A closet (especially in North American usage) is an enclosed space, with a door, used for storage, particularly that of clothes. Fitted closets are built into the walls of the house so that they take up no apparent space in the room.