dairy
/ˈdɛɚ.i/UK/ˈdɛə.ɹi/
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dairy noun: (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
Noun
dairy (countable and uncountable, plural dairies)
- (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
- My routine changed in February because I stopped alcohol, caffeine and dairy. Normally, I would have drunk a strong beer before I went to bed and made an espresso in the morning. It’s boring now but healthier.2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times
- A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.
- Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.
- A dairy farm.
- A shop selling dairy products.
- Can you go and buy some yoghurt and blue cheese from the dairy?
- A corner store, superette or minimart.
- A woman's breast.
- Her dairies as Wallop had called them were on display, or at least as much of them as she and Ruth could not contrive to cover.2011, Kate Moore, To Seduce an Angel
Adjective
dairy (not comparable)
- Referring to products produced from milk.
- Referring to products produced from animal milk as opposed to non-milk substitutes.
- Is this milk dairy or soy?
- Referring to products produced from animal milk as opposed to non-milk substitutes.
- Referring to the milk production and processing industries.
- On food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy ice cream).
dairy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
dairy in Hindi
- place, where milk is processed
- दुग्ध dugdh
- referring to products produced from milk
- दुग्ध dugdh
dairy in Tamil
- பால் பண்ணை
dairy in Marathi
- referring to products produced from milk
- दुग्धजन्य dugdhajanya
dairy in Urdu
- ڈیری
More languagesFewer languages
- dairy in Bengali
- দুগ্ধ, দুধ
- dairy in Malayalam
- ഗോശാല, ക്ഷീരോത്പന്ന വിൽപനശാല
- dairy in Kannada
- ಹಾಲಿನಂಗಡಿ, ಡೈರಿ, ಕ್ಷೀರಾಗಾರ, ಹೈನು
- dairy in Punjabi
- ਡੇਅਰੀ
- dairy in Gujarati
- ડેરી
- dairy in Assamese
- গাখীৰজাত gakhirzat
- dairy in Nepali
- डेयरी
- dairy in Tagalog
- gatasin
- dairy in Arabic
- مشتقات الحليب, مَلْبَنَة malbana, حَلِيبِيّ ḥalībiyy, لَبَنِيّ labaniyy
- dairy in Malay
- tenusu, produk tenusu, produk susu
- dairy in Indonesian
- produk susu
- dairy in Persian
- لبنیات labaniyât, لبنیاتی labaniyâti
- dairy in Thai
- ผลิตภัณฑ์นม pà-lìt-tá-pan-nom
- dairy in Vietnamese
- sản phẩm sữa, chế phẩm sữa
- dairy in Myanmar
- နို့စား nui.ca:
Examples of dairy in a sentence
- David's mother kept a kosher kitchen, with separate sets of dishes for meat and for dairy.
- My recipe file was now a mix of meat and dairy.
- One of the President's aides gave us a ten-minute backgrounder on the dairy industry before the meeting.
Synonyms of dairy
Forms of dairy
| plural | dairies |
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Origin of dairy
Inherited from Middle English deyerie (“dairy, dairy farm”), from Anglo-Norman deyerie (“dairy”), from deye (“dairymaid”) + -erie (“-ery”); by surface analysis, dey (“dairymaid”) + -ry. Cognate with Scots dery, dyrie.
Words formed from dairy
Phrases with dairy
Words that rhyme with dairy
Questions about dairy
- What does dairy mean?
- Dairy means (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
- What is dairy in Hindi?
- Dairy in Hindi is दुग्ध (dugdh). See Dairy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dairy?
- Dairy can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce dairy?
- Dairy is pronounced /ˈdɛə.ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dairy?
- The plural of dairy is dairies.
Words near dairy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dairy (page history and authors); dairy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dairy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dairy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dairy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dairy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dairy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dairy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dairy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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