English Online Dictionary. What means laundry? What does laundry mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈlɑn.dɹi/
- (dialectal, obsolete, distinct from the cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈlɑːn.dɹi/
- Rhymes: -ɔːndɹi, -ɑndɹi
Noun
laundry (countable and uncountable, plural laundries)
- A laundering; a washing.
- A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
- That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered. [from c. 1930]
- (slang, American football) A penalty flag.
- A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
Synonyms
- (action): washing
- (place): lavatory, laundromat, washateria, laundrette
Derived terms
Translations
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “laundry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “laundry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.