SIDEBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sideboard mean? 

• SIDEBOARD (noun)
  The noun SIDEBOARD has 3 senses:

1. a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity

2. a board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib

3. a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

  Familiarity information: SIDEBOARD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIDEBOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sideboard" is a kind of...):

board (a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sideboard" is a kind of...):

board (a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

buffet; counter; sideboard

Hypernyms ("sideboard" is a kind of...):

article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)

Meronyms (parts of "sideboard"):

drawer (a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out)

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sideboard"):

credence; credenza (a kind of sideboard or buffet)

cellaret; minibar (sideboard with compartments for holding bottles)

Holonyms ("sideboard" is a part of...):

dining-room; dining room (a room used for dining)

 Context examples 

You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are cigars in the box.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a bottle of wine on the sideboard, and I opened it and poured a little between Mary’s lips, for she was half dead with shock.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Why, here are the cards themselves!” cried he; and he pulled a brown towel from something in the centre of the sideboard.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Fairfax was dusting some vases of fine purple spar, which stood on a sideboard.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am sure I would not have such a creature as his Harry stand at our sideboard for any consideration.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It smelt of laudanum, and looking on the sideboard, I found that the bottle which mother's doctor uses for her—oh! did use—was empty.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If I had not guessed this, on the way to the coffee-house, I could hardly have failed to know what was the matter when I followed him into an upstairs room, and found Miss Murdstone there, supported by a background of sideboard, on which were several inverted tumblers sustaining lemons, and two of those extraordinary boxes, all corners and flutings, for sticking knives and forks in, which, happily for mankind, are now obsolete.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After sitting long enough to admire every article of furniture in the room, from the sideboard to the fender, to give an account of their journey, and of all that had happened in London, Mr. Collins invited them to take a stroll in the garden, which was large and well laid out, and to the cultivation of which he attended himself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She likewise set up housekeeping in the sideboard, and managed a microscopic cooking stove with a skill that brought tears of pride to Hannah's eyes, while Demi learned his letters with his grandfather, who invented a new mode of teaching the alphabet by forming letters with his arms and legs, thus uniting gymnastics for head and heels.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I opened my eyes I found that they had collected the silver from the sideboard, and they had drawn a bottle of wine which stood there.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)