laundry

[lawn-dree, lahn-]

noun

plural

laundries 

1. articles of clothing, linens, etc., that have been or are to be washed.

2. a business establishment where clothes, linens, etc., are laundered.

3. a room or area, as in a home or apartment building, reserved for doing the family wash.

laundry

/ ˈlɔːndrɪ /

noun

1. a place where clothes and linen are washed and ironed

2. the clothes or linen washed and ironed

3. the act of laundering

Word History and Origins

Origin of laundry¹

1350–1400; Middle English lavandrie < Middle French lavanderie. See launder, -y ³

Word History and Origins

Origin of laundry¹

C16: changed from C14 lavendry; see _launder

Idioms and Phrases

see wash one's dirty linen (laundry).

Example Sentences

Children play in between the temporary corrugated iron shelters where women are also doing laundry when we visit.

From BBC

The boys would also not be referred to by name but by their laundry number, which many have told the BBC they still remember today.

From BBC

A year ago, California adopted new safety regulations to protect more than a million workers laboring in warehouses, kitchens, laundry rooms and other hot indoor settings.

From Los Angeles Times

“It would be like showing his dirty laundry,” she says of releasing certain recordings.

From Los Angeles Times

Paramedics then found the foetus hidden in a laundry basket in her room, police said, which had not been born alive.

From BBC

Related Words

• washing