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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun buttery has 2 senses
- buttery(n = noun.artifact) larder, pantry - a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; Array has particulars: still room, stillroom
- buttery(n = noun.artifact) Array - a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals; Array is a kind of tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom, teashop
is a kind of storage room, storeroom, stowage
Adjective buttery has 2 senses
- buttery(s = adj.all) fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous - unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"
- buttery(s = adj.all) Array - resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" Derived form noun butter1
CIDE DICTIONARY
buttery, a.
Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. [1913 Webster]
buttery, n. [OE. botery, botry; cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F. bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask.].
- An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. [1913 Webster]"All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north." [1913 Webster]
- A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. [1913 Webster]"And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar." [1913 Webster]
- A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. Weale. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
buttery, n. (pl. -ies) a room, esp. in a college, where provisions are kept and supplied to students etc.
buttery, adj. like, containing, or spread with butter.
Derivative
butteriness n.
ROGET THESAURUS
buttery
Store
N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
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