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pantry - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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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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Footnotes

  1. 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222: ↩

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