freezer

[ free-zer ]

noun

1. a refrigerator, refrigerator compartment, cabinet, or room held at or below 32°F (0°C), used especially for preserving and storing food.
2. a machine containing cold brine, ice, etc., for making ice cream, sherbet, or the like.
3. a person or thing that freezes or chills.

freezer

/ ˈfriːzə /

noun

1. Also calleddeepfreeze a device that freezes or chills, esp an insulated cold-storage cabinet for long-term storage of perishable foodstuffs
2. See refrigerator
   a former name for refrigerator

Word History and Origins

Origin of freezer¹

First recorded in 1835–45; freeze + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Then, police said two people told them Jeremy Farmer had boasted about shooting his father twice in the head and hiding his body inside a freezer.

From Washington Post

I squeezed the bird into my too-small freezer and wrote out the menu on a scrap of paper.

From Eater

Once frozen, place them into freezer containers and freeze for up to 3 months.

From Washington Post

Then there was the day I saw cauliflower “tots” in the grocery freezer.

From Washington Post

A freezer containing 1,600 doses of the Moderna vaccine had just gone down.

From MIT Technology Review

And lo, Snowballs—underpants which can hold a flexible gel pack that you store in the freezer—was born.

From The Daily Beast

The trickiest items having been placed in the “freezer” to be addressed at a later date.

From The Daily Beast

The freezer is filled with meat, sides of beef and large pieces of lamb.

From The Daily Beast

The room is quite elaborate, with a walk-in freezer and several ovens.

From The Daily Beast

After about an hour, he hears a faint tapping sound from inside the freezer and opens the door.

From The Daily Beast

It's just that—well, it's such a wonderful freezer that some of the outside men get carried away, so to speak.

From Project Gutenberg

It was impossible to believe that, a moment ago, the silent block had been bellowing the name of a freezer.

From Project Gutenberg

The Countess is making a twogallon freezer of ice-cream for you, and she has a big pan of angel cake to go with it!

From Project Gutenberg

The warmth required to make this melting possible comes from the contents of the can inside the ice-cream freezer.

From Project Gutenberg

When a vacuum freezer is to be used, turn it upside down and insert the ice-and-salt mixture through the opening in the bottom.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cooler
• refrigerator