cupboard, cabinet or closet?

[curiousmarcus]

Would you consider this a board game cupboard, a board game cabinet, or a board game closet?

 

[ChinaDan]

Cabinet - my preference.
Cupboard - okay.
Closet - No, not a closet.

 

[Skrej]

I'm equally okay with either 'cupboard' or 'cabinet', but definitely not a closet.

 

[Rover_KE]

More specifically, it's a glass-fronted cupboard/cabinet.

Its use would not be confined to displaying board games.

 

[jutfrank]

Cabinet.

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

The first word that popped up my mind was "cupboard". :-D I didn't even know we could describe it as a cabinet.

 

[jutfrank]

I agree with the reason given above in post #7. It's the display function that makes it a cabinet, not a cupboard, for me (BrE).

 

[Rover_KE]

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[Matthew Wai]

A closet is shown in the following picture, which might be worth the OP's reference.

Source: http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/closet_1?q=closet