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lar·der

 (lär′dər)
n.
1. A place, such as a pantry or cellar, where food is stored.
2. A supply of food.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin lārdārium, from Latin lārdum, bacon.]
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larder

(ˈlɑːdə)
n
a room or cupboard, used as a store for food
[C14: from Old French lardier, from lard]
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lar•der

(ˈlɑr dər)

n.
1. a room or place where food is kept; pantry.
2. a supply of food.
[1275–1325; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French lardier. See lard, -er2]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.larder - a supply of food especially for a household
commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals, provender - a stock or supply of foods
2.larder - a small storeroom for storing foods or wineslarder - a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
still room, stillroom - a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc
storage room, storeroom, stowage - a room in which things are stored
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larder

noun pantry, store, cupboard, storeroom, scullery The larder was stocked with tasty home-made jams and chutneys.
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Translations
spíž
spisekammer
ruokakomero
smočnica
kamra
búr
食料置場
식료품 저장실
podėlissandėliukas
pieliekamais
špajza
skafferi
ตู้เก็บอาหาร
tủ đựng thức ăn

larder

[ˈlɑːdəʳ] Ndespensa f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

larder

[ˈlɑːrr] ngarde-manger m inv
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larder

n (esp Brit) (= room)Speisekammer f; (= cupboard)Speiseschrank m
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larder

[ˈlɑːdəʳ] ndispensa
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

larder

(ˈlaːdə) noun
a room or cupboard where food is stored in a house.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

larder

مَوْضِعٌ لِـحِفْظِ الأَطْعِمَةِ spíž spisekammer Speisekammer κελάρι alacena ruokakomero garde-manger smočnica dispensa 食料置場 식료품 저장실 provisiekamer spiskammer spiżarnia despensa кладовая skafferi ตู้เก็บอาหาร kiler tủ đựng thức ăn 贮藏处
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References in classic literature ?
And in this chapter it was, headed Smeer, or Fat, that I found a long detailed list of the outfits for the larders and cellars of 180 sail of Dutch whalemen; from which list, as translated by Dr.
THE water was all slippy- sloppy in the larder and in the back passage.
A cat which is hungry smells fish, and goes to the larder. This is a thoroughly efficient method when there is fish in the larder, and it is often successfully practised by children.
Pontellier's absence, and she begged her to take all thought and responsibility of the larder upon her own shoulders.
The owners, who officiate as caterers for the voyage, supply the larder with an abundance of dainties.
Were you never in the larder, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from above; where one dances about on tallow candles: that place where one enters lean, and comes out again fat and portly?"
So this little book fed me in a very hungry place; and I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little lunches from the same larder. I shall not mar Garnharn's translation by meddling with its English; for the most toothsome thing about it is its quaint fashion of building English sentences on the German plan-- and punctuating them accordingly to no plan at all.
After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, "Is not this nice?
You see that wicked men don't break into her larder when she's out at HER work--helping poor souls who have lost their way.
Wal, I puts up my larder dis yer side; 'tan't no go;--den, cause I don't try dere no more, but puts my larder right de contrar side, an't I persistent?
He thrust the little man aside as he spoke, and mounting on the steps, which were half let down, pulled down the blind by force, and stared into the chaise like an ogre into his larder.
Game, too, was plentiful and the electric rifles of Tom and Ned added to the larder.