different between larder vs refrigerator

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

From refrigerate +? -or

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???f??d?????e?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???f??d?????e???/, /???f??d?????e???/

Noun

refrigerator (plural refrigerators)

1. A household appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge).
2. A similar device used to keep non-food items cold, such as blood, photographic film, drugs, or pharmaceuticals like insulin.
3. One who has a chilling influence.
   • 1852-53, Charles Dickens, Bleak House

     […] in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.

Synonyms

• chiller
• coolchest
• fridge, frigerator
• icebox

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Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /re.fri?.?e?ra?.tor/, [r?f?i?????ä?t??r]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.fri.d??e?ra.tor/, [r?f?id???????t??r]

Verb

refr?ger?tor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of refr?ger?

Romanian

Etymology

From French réfrigérateur

Noun

refrigerator n (plural refrigeratoare)

1. refrigerator

   Synonym: frigider

Declension