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Meanings of cubicle in English

Portuguese
quiosque
Catalan
caseta
Spanish
quiosco

Small area set off by walls for special use.

quiosque
Portuguese
cela
Catalan
cel·la
Spanish
celda

Small room in which a monk or nun lives.

cela

Small individual study area in a library.

Usage of cubicle in English
1
He approached a second, smaller cubicle, where a guard snapped to attention.
Celtic fire
2
The white curtain walls of the cubicle contracted, closed in on her.
Life and Death of Harriett Frean
3
A wave of cold air moved through it into the control cubicle.
The Winds of Time
4
They were within a foot of each other in the ebonised cubicle.
Clayhanger
5
Who blames him for sounding loud and clear in some distant cubicle.
A singular man
6
She was young and pretty, and he followed her into a cubicle.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
7
He had gone back to his cubicle without looking at O'Brien again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
8
Chuckling, he strode into the second cubicle, leaving the first for her.
Midnight hero
9
Before she reached her cubicle Tiaan found another reason to be afraid.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
10
The cubicle had the appearance, but not the reality, of being private.
Clayhanger
11
Returning to the cubicle Offices reopened at limited capacity in phase two.
NY Magazine
12
Todd the manager was at her cubicle the moment her chair squeaked.
Austenland
13
The company's fake-wood cubicle hardly seems up to delivering on that promise.
Wired
14
No sooner was she out of her cubicle than the blow descended.
Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
15
Or worse: wondering if the next cubicle can hear you relieving yourself.
The Irish Times
16
The First Lady was huddled in the corner of an office cubicle.
Patient Zero
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Cubicle through the time
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