freezer
Americannoun
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freezers
plural
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a refrigerator, refrigerator compartment, cabinet, or room held at or below 32°F (0°C), used especially for preserving and storing food.
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a machine containing cold brine, ice, etc., for making ice cream, sherbet, or the like.
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a person or thing that freezes or chills.
noun
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Also called: deepfreeze. a device that freezes or chills, esp an insulated cold-storage cabinet for long-term storage of perishable foodstuffs
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a former name for refrigerator
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Etymology
Origin of freezer
Explanation
A freezer is an appliance that keeps food frozen at extremely low temperatures. A household freezer is usually built into a refrigerator. It's where you keep your ice cream and ice cubes. The freezer is where you keep ice cubes and frozen peas — it's a compartment at the top (or bottom) of the refrigerator in your kitchen. Larger freezers are used to keep enough food for a long period of time, or so a restaurant, hotel, or school cafeteria can store leftover food or keep enough to cook for a crowd of people. The word freezer was coined in 1847, although it originally meant part of an ice cream maker.
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Additionally, they recovered multiple animal remains from a freezer and a yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
New York influencer Christine Han bought eight Bordier blocks—along with a freezer bag and ice pack—after tasting the butter at a Parisian restaurant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Except my little freezer stash of homemade breakfast burritos had also dwindled to nothing, and I knew exactly what Monday morning would look like without some intervention: Wake up.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
I gave the instruction, talked to the team and then I went to the cafe on site and said to them: 'Can I sit in your freezer?'
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The power was out, but the freezer was still cold and the ice in it hadn’t melted.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Sampson-Smith added: "We provided school lunches during the school holidays, but at this point in time we've nothing in our freezers to do that for half term."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Recycling company Unimetals, which had dozens of sites in the UK, filed for liquidation in 2025 leaving tens of thousands of fridge freezers at Newport Docks.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The melt-in-your-mouth meat is now a fixture at fine-dining restaurants and in Costco freezers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The warehouse has two cavernous freezers on the east and west sides of the building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
If we went to almost any cell culture lab in the world and opened its freezers, he told us, we’d probably find millions —if not billions —of Henrietta’s cells in small vials on ice.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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