PANTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pantry mean? 

• PANTRY (noun)
  The noun PANTRY has 1 sense:

1. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines

  Familiarity information: PANTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small storeroom for storing foods or wines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

buttery; larder; pantry

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

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

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

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 

He’d just broke in at the pantry window when William came on him and met his end in saving his master’s property.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon that, with the natural feelings of a mother, I said, “Good God, I beg your pardon!” fell over the door-step, and came away through the little back passage where the pantry is.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I went into the kitchen, the butler’s pantry, the gun-room, the billiard-room, the drawing-room, and finally the dining-room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Let us to the chamber, while these strangers find such fare as pantry and cellar may furnish.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once a week Harrison used to bring me up provisions, passing them through the pantry window, which I left open for the purpose.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I store my food in Maria's safe and in her pantry," he lied.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Filling a coffee-pot and frying-pan with part of my plunder, and taking some chinaware from the cabin pantry, I left Wolf Larsen lying in the sun and went ashore.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The purposes for which a few shapeless pantries and a comfortless scullery were deemed sufficient at Fullerton, were here carried on in appropriate divisions, commodious and roomy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The wolf did not want to be asked twice; so that very night he went to the house and crawled through the drain into the kitchen, and then into the pantry, and ate and drank there to his heart’s content.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He might not be aware of the inroads on domestic peace to be occasioned by no housekeeper's room, or a bad butler's pantry, but no doubt he did perfectly feel that Enscombe could not make him happy, and that whenever he were attached, he would willingly give up much of wealth to be allowed an early establishment.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)