Synonyms for cubicle

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kyoo-bi-kuh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkyu bɪ kəl

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work area

Définition of cubicle

Origin : mid-15c., "bedroom," from Latin cubiculum "bedroom," from cubare "to lie down," originally "bend oneself," from PIE root *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." With Latin -clom, suffix denoting place. Obsolete from 16c. but revived 19c. for "dormitory sleeping compartment," sense of "any partitioned space" (such as a library carrel or, later, office work station) is first recorded 1926.

noun office compartment

Example sentences :

The white curtain walls of the cubicle contracted, closed in on her.
Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

Then I got to my feet and wearily opened the door of my cubicle.
Extract from : « Dogfight--1973 » by Dallas McCord Reynolds

Bill Dickson strolled over from the direction of his own cubicle.
Extract from : « Dogfight--1973 » by Dallas McCord Reynolds

When John Storm awoke in his cubicle next morning he saw his way clearer.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

You traversed these like a convict, speaking to no one, and entered your own cubicle.
Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber

She did hope Judith's room was near hers; at least hers was not a room, but a cubicle.
Extract from : « Judy of York Hill » by Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett

He stood at the door of The Guesser's cubicle, accompanied by a sergeant-at-arms.
Extract from : « But, I Don't Think » by Gordon Randall Garrett

I was propped on my elbows on the bunk in my cubicle, nursing the jangle in my leg.
Extract from : « Attrition » by Jim Wannamaker

And in his flurry he went off, poker in hand, to the cubicle.
Extract from : « The Master of the Shell » by Talbot Baines Reed

No sooner was she out of her cubicle than the blow descended.
Extract from : « Tom and Some Other Girls » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

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