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# pantry

«pantry» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small room or large cupboard in a home where food like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pantry, pantries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small room or large cupboard in a home where food like tins, jars, flour and cereal is kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#m1)

2) A food pantry (also food bank) is a place where people who need help can get free food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#m2)

3) (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal) Any kitchen cupboard used for food, also called a larder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories the pantry is where children sneak biscuits or find a mouse; in maths problems it holds jars, cans and boxes to count, share or sort on shelves. In everyday life it is where dry food is stored and checked for best-before labels; in safety lessons, cleaning products should not be kept next to food in the pantry. Phrases: «stock the pantry», «pantry shelf», «raid the pantry», «food pantry».

### examples

- Mum keeps the flour and rice in the pantry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#x1)
- There are 24 cans on the pantry shelves, 6 on each shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#x2)
- Who raided the pantry and ate all the cookies? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#x3)
- Our school collects tins for the local food pantry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#x4)
- The pantry door creaked open in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#x5)
- Grandad stocked the pantry before the snowstorm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#x6)
- Put the cereal back in the pantry when you're done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#x7)
- The old house had a cool pantry behind the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#x8)
- ‘Now go back to the pantry, and bring the best of everything you find there.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pantry/#x9)

### note

Countable: one pantry, two pantries (y changes to ies). Not the same as «panty/panties» (underwear) — say it carefully. A larder is an older word for the same thing; a fridge keeps food cold, a pantry does not. In maths problems the pantry is just the place the things are; count what is on its shelves.

### In the corpora

- [And the passage comes up under the butler's pantry, right next to the dining-hall!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/6/)
- [They come to a trap-door, push it up together and climb into the butler's pantry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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