Meaning & use
larder
A room or large cupboard used for storing food, especially before refrigerators were common.
See it in a sentence
The cook kept jars of preserves neatly lined up on the shelves of the larder.
By late winter, the family's larder held little more than potatoes and dried beans.
A note on using this word
Larder is somewhat old-fashioned in everyday American speech, where pantry is now the more common word.
Words with a similar meaning
pantrystoreroom
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