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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun larder has 2 senses
- larder(n = noun.food) Array - a supply of food especially for a household; Array is a kind of commissariat, provender, provisions, viands, victuals
- larder(n = noun.artifact) buttery, pantry - a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; Array has particulars: still room, stillroom
is a kind of storage room, storeroom, stowage
CIDE DICTIONARY
A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
larder, n.
1 a room or cupboard for storing food.
2 a wild animal's store of food, esp. for winter.
1 a room or cupboard for storing food.
2 a wild animal's store of food, esp. for winter.
Etymology
ME f. OF lardier f. med.L lardarium (as LARD)
THESAURUS
larder
abundance, accumulation, amassment, backlog, budget, buttery, canned foods, collection, commissariat, commissary, cornucopia, cumulation, dairy, dairy house, dehydrated foods, dump, food supply, fresh foods, frozen foods, groceries, grocery, heap, hoard, inventory, mass, material, materials, materiel, munitions, pantry, pile, plenitude, plenty, provender, provisionment, provisions, rations, repertoire, repertory, rick, root cellar, spence, stack, stillroom, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, supplies, supply on hand, treasure, treasuryROGET THESAURUS
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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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