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pantry

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈpantɹi//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈpant(ʰ)ɹ̥i]/
  • United States//ˈpæntɹi//
  • //ˈpæntɹi//
  • /[ˈpænt(ʰ)ɹ̥i]/

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.

noun

  1. 1

    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.

    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.

  2. 2

    A break room.

Etymology

From Middle English panetrie, from Old French paneterie, related to Latin panis (“bread”).

Forms

plural
pantries
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).