larder

noun
🔊/ˈlɑːdə(r)/
🔊/ˈlɑːrdər/
(especially British English)
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  1. a cupboard or small room in a house, used for storing food, especially in the past(尤指旧时的)食物橱柜,食物贮藏室
    • He comes home from school and raids the larder.他从学校回到家就冲向食品柜找吃的。
    • There wasn't much food left in the larder.食物贮藏室里的食物所剩不多了。
    • There's some ham in the larder—help yourself.储藏室中有一些火腿,请自助。
    synonym pantryTopics Houses and homesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • full
    • well-stocked
    • bare
    verb + larder
    • fill
    • stock
    • empty
    larder + noun
    • door
    • shelf
    preposition
    • in the larder
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    Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a store of meat): from Old French lardier, from medieval Latin lardarium, from laridum, related to Greek larinos ‘fat’.