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pantry - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
pantry (plural pantries)
- (UK, Canada, US) A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.
- ✤ Coordinate terms: larder, root cellar
- ✤ Next to the saloon is the pantry, which includes a wine cabinet, J. E. Hall bottle-cooling unit, a Stills Café set and ample cupboard space.1
- (Hong Kong) A break room.
Etymology
From Middle English panetrie, from Old French paneterie, related to Latin panis (“bread”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: pănʹ-tri, IPA: /ˈpæntɹi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpantɹi/, [ˈpant(ʰ)ɹ̥i]
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- (General American) IPA: /ˈpæntɹi/
- (without æ-raising) IPA: [ˈpænt(ʰ)ɹ̥i]
- (æ-raising) IPA: [ˈpeənt(ʰ)ɹ̥i]
- Rhymes: -æntɹi
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Link to original Footnotes
1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222: ↩