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larder

  • /ˈlɑː.də/ UK
  • /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

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Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard + -er.

noun larders

  1. A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored. He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love f
  2. A food supply. Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.

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noun cool room used as food storage

Españoldespensa, alacena
Portuguêsdespensa
Françaisgarde-manger, cellier
DeutschKühlraum, Speisekammer, Vorratsraum
Românăcămară
Русскийкладова́я kladovája, кладо́вка kladóvka

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"larder." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/larder. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{larder_2026,
  title = {larder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/larder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}