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cupful

/ˈkʌp̪fl̩/

cupful noun: the amount necessary to fill a cup.

Noun

cupful (plural cupfuls or cupsful)

  1. The amount necessary to fill a cup.
    • Add a cupful of milk to the sauce.
    • But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. A half pint, i.e. eight ounces

cupful meaning in Tamil

cupful in Tamil

கிண்ண நிறையளவு

Forms of cupful

pluralcupfuls
pluralcupsful

Origin of cupful

From Middle English copful, copfull, cupfulle, cuppefulle, equivalent to cup + -ful. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kopful (“cupful”), West Frisian kopfol (“cupful”).

Questions about cupful

What does cupful mean?
Cupful means the amount necessary to fill a cup.
What is cupful in Tamil?
Cupful in Tamil is கிண்ண நிறையளவு. See Cupful meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cupful?
Cupful is a noun.
How do you pronounce cupful?
Cupful is pronounced /ˈkʌp̪fl̩/.
What is the plural of cupful?
The plural of cupful is cupfuls.

Words near cupful in the dictionary

  1. Cupeño
  2. Cupeños
  3. cupferron
  4. cupflower
  5. cupflowers
  6. cupful
  7. cupfuls
  8. cupgrass
  9. cuphea
  10. cuphead
  11. cupheads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cupful (page history and authors); cupful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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