laundry
English
Etymology
From Middle English lavendrye, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.
Laundry (clothes in the process of being laundered) hanging on a clothesline to dry.
A laundry (room where laundering is done).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/
- (Northern Cities Vowel Shift) IPA(key): [ˈlɑn.dɹi]
- (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈlɑn.dɹi/
Audio (US) (file)
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.
- You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
Synonyms
- (action): washing
- (place): lavatory, laundromat, washateria, laundrette
Derived terms
Terms derived from laundry
Translations
laundering; washing
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place or room where laundering is done
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that which needs to be laundered
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