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larder

/ˈlɑː.də/US/ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/

larder noun: a cool room in a domestic house where food is stored.

Noun

larder (plural larders)

  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...1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVI [Uniform ed., p. 169]
  2. A food supply.
    • Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.1990, Stephen B. Vander Wall, Food Hoarding in Animals, page 243

larder meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

larder in Tamil

உணவரங்கு

larder in Urdu

نعمت خانہ, توشہ خانہ

larder in Malayalam

മാംസക്കലവറ

larder in Kannada

ಕೂಡಿಡುವ ಕೋಣೆ, ಗೂಡು
More languagesFewer languages
larder in Myanmar
ကြောင်အိမ် kraung-im

Forms of larder

plurallarders

Plural of larder: larders

Origin of larder

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

Words formed from larder

Phrases with larder

Words that rhyme with larder

Questions about larder

What does larder mean?
Larder means a cool room in a domestic house where food is stored.
What is larder in Tamil?
Larder in Tamil is உணவரங்கு. See Larder meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is larder?
Larder is a noun.
How do you pronounce larder?
Larder is pronounced /ˈlɑː.də/ (UK).
What is the plural of larder?
The plural of larder is larders.

Words near larder in the dictionary

  1. lardbutts
  2. Lardeau
  3. larded
  4. larded down
  5. larded up
  6. larder
  7. larder beetle
  8. larder beetles
  9. larderellite
  10. larderer
  11. larderers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: larder (page history and authors); larder (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); larder (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); larder (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); larder (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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