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cubicle

[kyoo-bi-kuhl]

noun

  1. a small space or compartment partitioned off.

  2. carrel.

  3. a bedroom, especially one of a number of small ones in a divided dormitory, as in English public schools.



cubicle

/ ˈːɪə /

noun

  1. a partially or totally enclosed section of a room, as in a dormitory

  2. an indoor construction designed to house individual cattle while allowing them free access to silage

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cubicle1

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin cubiculum bedroom, equivalent to cub ( ) to lie down + -i- -i- + -culum -cle 2
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cubicle1

C15: from Latin cubiculum, from cub to lie down, lie asleep
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While inside the cubicle, Jones snapped pictures of the golden toilet and a lock on the door.

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Elsewhere, Neo’s office building becomes a maze of cubicles.

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A nurse has been struck off the register after filming people through a hole in a cubicle wall in an Asda toilet.

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"The lower part is where you put your solid waste," she says, pointing to a loo in a small cubicle that looks like something you might find at a very old campsite.

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Another said: "At birth I wasn't checked for two hours. I went to the toilet and rang the emergency cord - I gave birth in the toilet cubicle."

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