laundry
//ˈlɔːn.dɹi//
Forms
- Plural
- laundries
Definitions
1.A laundering; a washing.
- In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.
2.A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
- Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.
3.That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
- You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
4.A penalty flag.(slang)
- Who does your laundry for you?
- I'm looking for someone to do my laundry for me.
- How much would you charge me to do my laundry for me?
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4788
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria.
See launder.