Difference between Closet and Cupboard

What is the difference between Closet and Cupboard?

Closet as a noun is a piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored. while Cupboard as a noun is an enclosed storage space with a door, usually having shelves, used to store crockery, food, etc.

Closet

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To have a private meeting.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored. A small private chamber. A toilet; a water closet. The imagined closet in idioms such as or Secretly.

Example sentence: In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days.

Cupboard

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An enclosed storage space with a door, usually having shelves, used to store crockery, food, etc.A table or sideboard on which to display or store cups, dishes etc.

Example sentence: My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

We hope you now know whether to use Closet or Cupboard in your sentence.

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