laundry

American  

[lawn-dree, lahn-] / ˈlɔn dri, ˈlɑn- /

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.

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laundry British  

/ 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

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laundry Idioms  

1. see wash one's dirty linen (laundry).

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Etymology

Origin of laundry

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

Example Sentences

A beauty salon, including barbers, pedicurists and manicurists, is also on hand, along with a laundry service and dry cleaners.

From BBC

There’s been a fight, and the singer plans to mend fences, using laundry as bait: “Can you come pick up your clothes? I have them folded.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The cost of doing laundry at a university is so expensive that students are choosing between eating or washing their clothes, a union has claimed.

From BBC

Confrontational and surprising, its the comic equivalent of not just airing a marriage’s dirty laundry in public, but broadcasting it on a Jumbotron.

From Los Angeles Times

Construction crews haul supplies while women in skirts wheel laundry carts of paper between bald wooden huts.

From Literature

Related Words

• washing