Other forms: cubicles
A cubicle is a small work space walled off by low partitions. An office cubicle, work in a cubicle, cubicle farm.
It began as an idealistic design in the 1960s meant to give office workers privacy and control, and it became the symbol of the opposite. In British English a cubicle is more often the one in a toilet or a changing room. The Latin cubiculum means a bedroom.
1nouncubicleA small space walled off by partitions.
“He works in a grey cubicle in a big open-plan office.”
cubicle is a space.
Latin cubiculum means a bedroom, from cubare, to lie down.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱewb-
Latin
cubiculum — bedroom
Middle English
cubicle
English, today
cubicle
From Late Middle English cubicle, from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). a doublet of cubiculum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA