side·board

(sīd′bôrd′)

1. A long, low piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for storing linens and tableware and a flat surface for serving food or displaying items.

2. A board that forms a side or part of a side: the sideboards of a skating rink.

3. sideboards Chiefly British Sideburns.

[Sense 3, probably alteration of sideburns.]

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sideboard

(ˈsaɪdˌbɔːd)

(Furniture) a piece of furniture intended to stand at the side of a dining room, with drawers, cupboards, and shelves to hold silver, china, linen, etc

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

side•board

(ˈsaɪdˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd)

n.

a piece of furniture, often with shelves and drawers, for holding articles of table service.

Sideboard

A piece of dining room furniture used for storing things such as plates and silverware.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	sideboard - a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity board - a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose; "he nailed boards across the windows"
	2.	sideboard - a board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib board - a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose; "he nailed boards across the windows"
	3.	sideboard - a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers buffet, counter credenza, credence - a kind of sideboard or buffet dining room, dining-room - a room used for dining drawer - a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture - furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room" cellaret, minibar - sideboard with compartments for holding bottles shelf - a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects

Translations

بُوْفِيه

příborník

skænk

astiakaappi

kredenac

食器棚

찬장

omara za posodo

skänk

büfe

tủ bếp

碗柜

sideboard

[ˈsaɪdbɔːd] N → aparador m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sideboard

[ˈsaɪdbɔː^rd] n → buffet m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sideboard

[ˈsaɪdˌbɔːd] n → credenza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

Sideboard

→ بُوْفِيه příborník skænk Anrichte σκευοθήκη aparador astiakaappi buffet kredenac credenza 食器棚 찬장 dressoir anretningsbord kredens aparador буфет skänk ตู้เก็บเครื่องใช้หรือภาชนะที่ใช้ในการรับประทานอาหาร büfe tủ bếp 碗柜

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

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"Cigarettes and cigars on the sideboard. Touch the bell if you'll take anything to drink."

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Half a dozen chairs had been carelessly pushed back, there were empty champagne bottles upon the sideboard, the air was faintly odorous of tobacco smoke - blue wreaths were still curling upwards towards the frescoed ceiling.

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Granet had approached the dark mahogany sideboard and was fingering some bottles.

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Behind it a great mahogany-appearing sideboard reached the ceiling.

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When they rose, so many of the magnates had something to say to Mr Merdle individually that he held little levees by the sideboard, and checked them off as they went out at the door.

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Floyd were sure to retire with their glasses, while Cecil invariably lingered, sipping at his while she locked up the sideboard.

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About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two lanterns of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper at the capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard. Nor was Stubb the only banqueter on whale's flesh that night.

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He turned away from the sideboard with his usual pleasant, quiet gaze.

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There was a sideboard of mahogany, inlaid with ivory, and bearing enormous handles of glittering brass, and groaning under the piles of silver plate.

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These he took down from the shelves and placed upon a sideboard, and prepared to make himself merry.

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Take one sample of the way in which he went on, and you will understand what I had to put up with at the sideboard, officiating as I was in the character of a man who had the prosperity of the festival at heart.

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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.

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