different between larder vs lander

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lard?rium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??.d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

larder (plural larders)

1. A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored, but larger than a pantry.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVI [Uniform ed., p. 169]:

     He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.

2. A food supply.
   • 1990, Stephen B. Vander Wall, Food Hoarding in Animals (page 243)

     Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.

Translations

Anagrams

• radler

French

Verb

larder

1. to lard; to smear food with lard
2. to stab; to pierce

Conjugation

Related terms

• lard

Further reading

• “larder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

land +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?lænd?]
• (General American) IPA^(key): [?lænd?]
• Hyphenation: land?er
• Rhymes: -ænd?(?)

Noun

lander (plural landers)

1. One who lands, or who lands something.
   • 1997, Northern Scotland (volumes 17-18, page 94)

     The Faroese have been important landers of fish at Aberdeen for decades.

2. A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
3. (mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
4. (slang) An illegal immigrant.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ladner, Larned, Lenard, Nadler, Randel, Randle, aldern, darnel, enlard, larned, learn'd, learnd, reland

Danish

Verb

lander

1. present of lande

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lander

1. present of lande