-ery


  1. a suffix of nouns denoting occupation, business, calling or condition, place or establishment, goods or products, things collectively, qualities, actions, etc.: archery; bakery; cutlery; fishery; trickery; witchery.

Origin of -ery

1
Middle English <Old French -erie, equivalent to -ier-er2 + -ie-y3

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British Dictionary definitions for -ery

-ery

suffix forming nouns
  1. indicating a place of business or some other activity: bakery; brewery; refinery

  2. indicating a class or collection of things: cutlery; greenery

  1. indicating qualities or actions collectively: snobbery; trickery

  2. indicating a practice or occupation: husbandry

  3. indicating a state or condition: slavery

Origin of -ery

1
from Old French -erie; see -er 1, -y ³

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