larder

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈlɑː.də/
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/ˈlɑː.də/ · /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/

Definition of larder

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored.
    “He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.”
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noun

  1. A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored.
    “He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.”
  2. A food supply.
    “Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard + -er.

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