Airing Cupboard Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

✨📕 The NEW Collegiate Dictionary, 12th Edition Over 5,000 words added — Learn More! ✨📕 The NEW Collegiate Dictionary — Learn More! Est. 1828 Dictionary

• Definition
• Definition
• Example Sentences
• Entries Near

• • Cite this EntryCitation
  • Share
  Show more
• Show more
  • Citation
  • Share

• Save Word
  • To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In

airing cupboard

noun

British : a heated cupboard in which sheets, towels, clothes, etc., are kept warm and dry

Examples of airing cupboard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback. Vent holes in a laundry room might call to mind a traditional airing cupboard, but perhaps counterintuitively, that term actually refers to a heated cupboard for keeping towels dry rather than one in which air freely circulates. —Monika Biegler Eyers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2025

Browse Nearby Words

airing airing cupboard air injection See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

Style MLA Chicago APA Merriam-Webster

“Airing cupboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airing%20cupboard. Accessed 25 Dec. 2025.

Copy Citation

Share

Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Merriam-Webster unabridged

More from Merriam-Webster

Can you solve 4 words at once?

Play Play

Can you solve 4 words at once?

Play Play

Word of the Day

noel

See Definitions and Examples »

Get Word of the Day daily email!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'

The Difference Between 'i.e.' and 'e.g.'

What’s the difference between ‘cemetery’ and ‘graveyard’?

Democracy or Republic: What's the difference?

See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

Ten Kinds of Happiness

17 Words for Dog Breeds

Birds Say the Darndest Things

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

Better Ways to Say 'This Sucks'

See More

Popular

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

Ten Kinds of Happiness

17 Words for Dog Breeds

See More

Games & Quizzes

See All Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once? Play Blossom Pick the best words! Play The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist Play Are you naughty or nice? Quiz He's making a quiz, and checking it twice... Take the quiz See All