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# larder

«larder» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cool room or large cupboard in a house where food is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a larder, larders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A larder is a cool room or large cupboard in a house where food is kept, especially in older homes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#m1)

2) It can mean the store of food a person or family has. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#m2)

3) Some animals have a larder: squirrels and shrikes store food to eat later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories set in older or country houses, and in British homes; in science lessons about animals storing food for winter. Phrases: «a well-stocked larder», «raid the larder».

### examples

- Mum keeps the jam in the larder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#x1)
- The old cottage had a cold stone larder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#x2)
- The mice found their way into the larder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#x3)
- Our larder is empty, we need to go shopping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#x4)
- Squirrels make a larder of nuts for the winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#x5)
- The shrike stores insects on thorns as a larder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#x6)
- I raided the larder for a midnight snack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#x7)
- In the story, the larder was full of pies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#x8)
- My larder is a regular horn of plenty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/#x9)

### note

Countable. Similar to «pantry»; both are rooms or cupboards for food, and many people use them for the same thing. Mainly British; Americans more often say «pantry».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «larder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/larder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.