🇬🇧 Cuboid meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A cuboid is a solid 3D shape that looks like a box or a brick. It has six flat faces, and each face is a rectangle. It has straight edges and sharp corners, and opposite faces are the same size. Many everyday objects are cuboids, like a cereal box, a book, or a tissue box.

Our teacher showed us a cuboid and said, “This is math,” and my brain said, “This is a box.”

I tried to juggle three cuboids, and now I know why clowns don’t juggle bricks.

I tried to hug my toy cuboid, but it just stood there being a very serious box.

The cuboid cereal box watches me every day, silently judging how much sugar I pour.

Many buildings are shaped like cuboids because boxy shapes stack easily—so you basically live in a giant 3D rectangle.

A boy found a blue cuboid on the kitchen table. He turned the cuboid and saw six flat sides. He stacked another cuboid beside it, then pushed a third cuboid to build a little house. A cat batted the top cuboid, everything fell, and the boy laughed at the neat, toppled pile.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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