Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small room or closet, usually off a kitchen, where food, tableware, linens, and similar items are stored.
- n. A small room used for the preparation of cold foods.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The office of a pantler.
- n. An apartment or closet in which provisions are kept, or where plate and knives, etc., are cleaned.
Wiktionary
- n. A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to food storage and/or storing kitchenware. Since the pantry is not typically temperature-controlled (unlike a refrigerator or root cellar), the foods stored in a pantry are usually shelf-stable staples such as grains, flours, and preserved foods.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
Etymologies
- From Old French paneterie, related to Latin panis ("bread"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pantrie, from Old French paneterie, bread-closet, from panetier, pantry servant, from pan, bread, from Latin pānis; see pā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“And yet ... and yet ... when it's all said and done and autumn winds chill the night air, what we're left with, besides a stocked-up pantry, is a deep feeling of strength and satisfaction.”
“Dried beans are cheap, high-protein pantry staples.”
The Huffington Post: Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution
“Hmm-I think the problem may be compounded by the fact that the pantry is in the same small room as the clothes washer, which no doubt generates humidity even in dry season.”
“Haha, at least half the stuff in my pantry is no name/store name or practically no name brands too.”
“And all I can see in the pantry is FKN sundried bananas.”
“This was a nod to my O.B.E. (blogs passim: Old Brand Excess) where life is enriched by certain pantry staples.”
“And companies are still reeling from lower sales volumes that began in 2008 with what some dub pantry deloading.”
“Manju, the thought of moving my freezer and pantry is terrorizing, even after a month of not buying a thing.”
“I imagine where the pantry is now, and behind that is a closet off the family room -- that's a chunk of space.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pantry’.
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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
scullery, suite, porch, screened porch, breakfast room, atheneum, attic, hall, dressing room, passageway, corridor, fusuma and 126 more...
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Storage Facilities
bankshall, storehouse, granary, cornhouse, garner, grange, bodega, repository, sceuophylacium, skeuophylakion, bookhouse, reliquary and 100 more...
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
country, vestry, cabinetry, idolatry, entry, poultry, harlotry, banditry, pantry, sultry, conchyliometry, bathymetry
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pants
all kinds of pants
pantile, dopant, flippant, agapanthus, panther, rampant, smarty-pants, pantsuit, pantothen, participant, pantry, pantoscopic and 37 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Castles and Keeps
Shamelessly ripped off from this site and others (to be named hereinafter). (Fair warning: for my own edification, I may add definitions/comments from the site, but you might want to just go there ...
abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
pagan, page, pageant, pageboy, pagoda, paisley, paladin, palfrey, paling, pampas grass, pan, panoply and 194 more...
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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hatful of hollow
some of the words immortalised by Morrissey on Hatful of Hollow
humdrum, rain, ashamed, sick, blushed, mammary, conjugal, punctured, desolate, decree, dull, plain and 24 more...
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Food for Thought
A breaded foray of words
lady, appanage, companion, penuche, pastille, pantry, panicle, panocha, pannier, panatela, panada, panada and 87 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pantry.
chained_bear Much as I prefer reading the rest of this page, I'm going to spoil it now:
"Associated with the buttery in the Great Hall complex. Not sure what its function was as differentiated from the former. Pantry actually means 'bread room' (pan French equals bread). The lower end of a great hall, opposite the lord's dais at the upper end, almost always had three doors: buttery, pantry, and passage to kitchen." (britcastles.com) Aug 27, 2008
dontcry Also, one could get pantsed if panting profusely. Jun 16, 2008
reesetee Not that I know of. I was thinking of "to pant" as in "to breathe heavily." But one could say one was panted if pants were on respective legs, I suppose. Jun 16, 2008
chained_bear Wow. Does donning pants really have its own verb, "to pant"? *thinks about pants* Jun 16, 2008
reesetee Hmm. I once lived in an apartment that was so small that I did store pants in the pantry. (There were no closets.) However, I could not fit in the pantry with the pants, so I had to pant elsewhere when donning the pants. Jun 16, 2008
dontcry Sounds like a place you could try some of those uber expensive skillets before investing in one. Jun 14, 2008
gangerh I thought 'twas where you went to test the roadholding properties of your next new motor. Jun 14, 2008
yarb Good point. A place for panting as you put on your pants. Jun 14, 2008
kalli Sounds to me like it should be a place to store pants. Or something to do with pants anyway. Putting them on or something. Jun 14, 2008