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BNC: 16017 COCA: 10473

cubicle

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
cubicle /ˈkjuːbɪkəl/ noun
plural cubicles
cubicle
/ˈkjuːbɪkəl/
noun
plural cubicles
Learner's definition of CUBICLE
[count]
chiefly US : a work space in a large office with a desk that is usually surrounded by low walls隔间
British : a small space in a public room (such as a bathroom) that has walls for privacy(房间分隔出来的)小室,小房间小隔间
BNC: 16017 COCA: 10473

cubicle

noun

cu·​bi·​cle ˈkyü-bi-kəl How to pronounce cubicle (audio)
1
: a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room
2
a
: a small partitioned space
especially : one with a desk used for work in a business office
b
: carrel

Example Sentences

data entry clerks busily typing in cubicles
Recent Examples on the Web The university has had to add dorms and temporarily house students in cubicle-like lodgings created in dorm basements and study lounges. Lee Lawrence, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2022 Thanks to a tight labor market, employees have been able to push back against return-to-office mandates, with many simply ignoring executives calling them back to the cubicle. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 July 2022 The developers enjoyed a tight coupling between feature requests, coding, and bug-fixing, but only because the game designer sat one cubicle away from the artist and the programmer. Alyse Knorr, Ars Technica, 6 July 2022 And bonding over the cafeteria food or their cubicle mate. Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022 My closest cubicle mate is unvaccinated and came down with Covid. New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022 The StoneAge cubicle-free office is stationed near the end of the Durango River Trail, making for easy lunchtime or post-work river walks and runs. Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014 In a cubicle toward the back of the office, another staffer was answering a question about whether the law would be retroactively applied in order to prosecute people who got abortions during North Dakota’s thirty-day window of reprieve. Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022 Commuting to an office to Zoom into a meeting from your cubicle is the definition of joyless. Marie Hattar, Forbes, 30 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Latin cubiculum, from cubare to lie, recline

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of cubicle was in the 15th century
BNC: 16017 COCA: 10473
cubicle

noun

ADJECTIVE | CUBICLE + NOUN | VERB + CUBICLE | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVElittle, small, tiny小隔間;微型隔間separate隔開的小房間empty空的小隔間next隔壁的隔間I don't even know my colleague in the next cubicle.我連隔壁小隔間的同事都不認識。changing, shower, toilet更衣室;淋浴小單間;衞生間小隔間office (especially NAmE) 辦公室小隔間CUBICLE + NOUNcurtain, door隔間的簾子;隔間的門wall隔間的牆VERB + CUBICLEoccupy佔據隔間enter, leave進入/離開隔間PREPOSITIONin a/the cubicle在隔間裏

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