pantry
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 →
2) A food pantry (also food bank) is a place where people who need help can get free food. tree →
3) (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal) Any kitchen cupboard used for food, also called a larder. tree →
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 →
- There are 24 cans on the pantry shelves, 6 on each shelf. tree →
- Who raided the pantry and ate all the cookies? tree →
- Our school collects tins for the local food pantry. tree →
- The pantry door creaked open in the dark. tree →
- Grandad stocked the pantry before the snowstorm. tree →
- Put the cereal back in the pantry when you're done. tree →
- The old house had a cool pantry behind the kitchen. tree →
- ‘Now go back to the pantry, and bring the best of everything you find there.’ tree →
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!
- They come to a trap-door, push it up together and climb into the butler's pantry.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pantry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.