Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small room or closet, usually off a kitchen, where food, tableware, linens, and similar items are stored.
- noun A small room used for the preparation of cold foods.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a pantler.
- noun An apartment or closet in which provisions are kept, or where plate and knives, etc., are cleaned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
room ,closet , orcabinet usually located in or near thekitchen , dedicated to foodstorage and/or storingkitchenware . Since the pantry is not typically temperature-controlled (unlike a refrigerator orroot cellar ), the foods stored in a pantry are usually shelf-stablestaples such as grains, flours, and preserved foods.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hmm-I think the problem may be compounded by the fact that the pantry is in the same small room as the clothes washer, which no doubt generates humidity even in dry season.
storing canned goods 2009
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Hmm-I think the problem may be compounded by the fact that the pantry is in the same small room as the clothes washer, which no doubt generates humidity even in dry season.
storing canned goods 2009
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Dried beans are cheap, high-protein pantry staples.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
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Dried beans are cheap, high-protein pantry staples.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
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Dried beans are cheap, high-protein pantry staples.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
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Dried beans are cheap, high-protein pantry staples.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
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Filling a coffee-pot and frying-pan with part of my plunder, and taking some chinaware from the cabin pantry, I left Wolf Larsen lying in the sun and went ashore.
Chapter 32 2010
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Hmm-I think the problem may be compounded by the fact that the pantry is in the same small room as the clothes washer, which no doubt generates humidity even in dry season.
storing canned goods 2009
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And yet ... and yet ... when it's all said and done and autumn winds chill the night air, what we're left with, besides a stocked-up pantry, is a deep feeling of strength and satisfaction.
Maria Rodale: A Harvest of Healing Maria Rodale 2010
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Dried beans are cheap, high-protein pantry staples.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
kalli commented on the word pantry
Sounds to me like it should be a place to store pants. Or something to do with pants anyway. Putting them on or something.
June 14, 2008
yarb commented on the word pantry
Good point. A place for panting as you put on your pants.
June 14, 2008
gangerh commented on the word pantry
I thought 'twas where you went to test the roadholding properties of your next new motor.
June 14, 2008
dontcry commented on the word pantry
Sounds like a place you could try some of those uber expensive skillets before investing in one.
June 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pantry
Hmm. I once lived in an apartment that was so small that I did store pants in the pantry. (There were no closets.) However, I could not fit in the pantry with the pants, so I had to pant elsewhere when donning the pants.
June 16, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pantry
Wow. Does donning pants really have its own verb, "to pant"? *thinks about pants*
June 17, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pantry
Not that I know of. I was thinking of "to pant" as in "to breathe heavily." But one could say one was panted if pants were on respective legs, I suppose.
June 17, 2008
dontcry commented on the word pantry
Also, one could get pantsed if panting profusely.
June 17, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pantry
Much as I prefer reading the rest of this page, I'm going to spoil it now:
"Associated with the buttery in the Great Hall complex. Not sure what its function was as differentiated from the former. Pantry actually means 'bread room' (pan French equals bread). The lower end of a great hall, opposite the lord's dais at the upper end, almost always had three doors: buttery, pantry, and passage to kitchen." (britcastles.com)
August 27, 2008
bilby commented on the word pantry
I have a feeling how Borat would pronounce the Latin word for bread (see Etymologies above).
May 15, 2021