LARDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does larder mean? 

• LARDER (noun)
  The noun LARDER has 2 senses:

1. a supply of food especially for a household

2. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines

  Familiarity information: LARDER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A supply of food especially for a household

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("larder" is a kind of...):

commissariat; provender; provisions; viands; victuals (a stock or supply of foods)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small storeroom for storing foods or wines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

buttery; larder; pantry

Hypernyms ("larder" is a kind of...):

storage room; storeroom; stowage (a room in which things are stored)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "larder"):

still room; stillroom (a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc)

 Context examples 

"Well, I like that! Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised?" cried John, rushing to the larder.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The men made snowshoes, hunted fresh meat for the larder, and in the long evenings played endless games of whist and pedro.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You will excuse my apparent grossness, Mary, in venturing to bring my own larder with me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'Rats and mice and such small deer,' as Shakespeare has it, 'chicken-feed of the larder' they might be called.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was accustomed to speak of the larder when I lived with papa and mama, and I use the word almost unconsciously.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, “Is not this nice? Is not this an agreeable surprise?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There was driftwood, though not much, on the beach, and the sight of a coffee tin I had taken from the Ghost’s larder had given me the idea of a fire.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Threading this chaos, I at last reached the larder; there I took possession of a cold chicken, a roll of bread, some tarts, a plate or two and a knife and fork: with this booty I made a hasty retreat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was plenty of food in the larder, and while Beth and Amy set the table, Meg and Jo got breakfast, wondering as they did why servants ever talked about hard work.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With the exception of the heel of a Dutch cheese—which is not adapted to the wants of a young family—said Mrs. Micawber, there is really not a scrap of anything in the larder.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)