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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quantity a cup will hold; "he drank a cup of coffee"; "he borrowed a cup of sugar" [syn: cup, cupful]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural cupfuls; also cupsful) Date: 12th century 1. as much as a cup will hold 2. cup 7

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -fuls) 1 the amount held by a cup, esp. US a half-pint or 8-ounce measure in cookery. 2 a cup full of a substance (drank a cupful of water). Usage: A cupful is a measure, and so three cupfuls is a quantity regarded in terms of a cup; three cups full denotes the actual cups, as in three cups full of water. Sense 2 is an intermediate use.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cupful Cup"ful (k?p"f?l), n.; pl. Cupfuls (-f?lz). As much as a cup will hold.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cupfuls) A cupful of something is the amount of something a cup can contain. ...a cupful of warm milk. N-COUNT: usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Cup.