Cupboard vs Joseph - What's the difference?
cupboard | joseph |
An enclosed storage space with a door, usually having shelves, used to store crockery, food, etc.
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(obsolete) A table or sideboard on which to display or store cups, dishes etc.
To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
* 1608 , , I. i. 98:
(biblical) Eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel.
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* 1913 ,
The husband of Virgin Mary.
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The 12th sura (chapter) of the Quran
(Christianity) (Joseph of Arimathea); man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus.
, popular as a middle name.
* 1998 (Steven Herrick), A Place Like This , Univ. of Queensland Press, ISBN 0702229849, page 86:
As nouns the difference between cupboard and joseph
is that cupboard is an enclosed storage space with a door, usually having shelves, used to store crockery, food, etc while joseph is (sometimes capitalised) a woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.As a verb cupboard
is to collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.cupboard
English
(wikipedia cupboard)Noun
(en noun)- Put the cups in the cupboard .
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Synonyms
* closet (US) * press * wardrobe (British)Derived terms
* airing cupboard * cupboardlike * cupboard love * cupboardy * fume cupboard * hot cupboard * skeleton in the cupboardSee also
* armoire * sideboardVerb
(en verb)- Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing / Like labour with the rest,
joseph
English
(wikipedia Joseph)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
- A few shocks of corn in a corner of the fallow stood up as if alive; she imagined them bowing; perhaps her son would be a Joseph .
- And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph , which was the son of Heli.
- I'm going to call him Joseph' / or Josephine if it's a girl. / Why? / Because it's a strong name, / Joe, ' Joseph . / You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life. / - - - So Joe it is. / He'll turn out strong. Strong and smart.
