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sideboard

sideboard

9 4.4
A cabinet with drawers and shelves for storing dishes and serving food
  • noun
  • /ˈsaɪdbɔrd/
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  • The lovely sideboard in the corner of the dining room holds all my fine china.
  • dining room sideboard
  • antique sideboard
  • mahogany sideboard

There are coffee and water along the sideboard outside on on that end of the lecture room.

Examples

  • Jerome took a soup plate from the sideboard and held it next to the tureen.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • A blue and white china tureen held pride of place on the sideboard, but the ladle was chipped.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • - I set dinner on the sideboard at 6--

  • Something white on the sideboard caught her attention, a piece of paper.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • My, what a beautiful sideboard.

  • Leave everything on the sideboard.

  • I retired to the sideboard and started to pour out the coffee.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I'll leave the bread and jam on the sideboard.

  • "Before Karen could say anything, Defina had begun to move food from the sideboard to the table."

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Daskeh thought of the framed photograph of her mother that hung above the dark sideboard in the apartment.

    Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

buffet
vssideboard
13 6.2

A piece of furniture with shelves and drawers for storing plates and cutlery

is used to serve food during meals rather than only for storage

How Big

buffet
13 6.2
credenza
8 8.3
sideboard
9 4.4
tray
311 1.0

Surface Forms

sideboard singular
sideboards plural

Morphology

sideboard = side + board (semi-transparent) = side + board

The components 'side' + 'board' are clear but the sense has lexicalized as a specific piece of furniture, which is a specialized meaning learners may not infer directly.

Etymology

Sideboard is simply side + board, meaning a 'board' at the 'side' of a room used to hold dishes and plates. So, a sideboard is furniture for storing and serving tableware.