larder

Collocations

7

1

(noun.)

ADJ

full, well-stocked | bare, empty | walk-in

VERB + LARDER

fill, stock

empty, raid

During the winter months, we gradually emptied the larder as fresh supplies became harder to find.

LARDER + NOUN

door, shelf

PREP

in the ~

My grandmother kept her homemade jam and pickles in the larder.

Definitions

noun

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 from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.

2

A food supply.

Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a small storeroom for storing foods or wines

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

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,

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02

Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.

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03

There is a lot of food in the larder.

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04

My nan has a larder where she stores food.

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05

Houses nowadays are rarely built with a larder.

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06

Our larder is bare.

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