Meanings
plural pantries
- CanadaUKUSA small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.
Next to the saloon is the pantry, which includes a wine cabinet, J. E. Hall bottle-cooling unit, a Stills Café set and ample cupboard space.
1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222Synonyms: cupboard, kitchen closet, larder, press, cupboard, kitchen cabinet
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.
nounA break room.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna small storeroom for storing foods or wines
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinpanis“bread”
- Old Frenchpaneterie
- Middle Englishpanetrie
- Englishpantry
From Middle English panetrie, from Old French paneterie, related to Latin panis (“bread”).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian киле́р
- киле́р (kilér)storage room
Catalan rebost
- reboststorage room
Chinese Mandarin 食品儲藏室 /食品储藏室, 備餐間 /备餐间
- 食品儲藏室 /食品储藏室 (shípǐn chúcángshì)storage room
- 備餐間 /备餐间 (bèicānjiān)storage room
- 庋 (guǐ)storage room
Czech spíž
- spížstorage room
Danish spisekammer
- spisekammerstorage room
Dutch voorraadkamer, bijkeuken
- voorraadkamerstorage room
- bijkeukenstorage room
- voorraadkaststorage room
Estonian sahver
- sahverstorage room
Finnish ruokakomero, pentteri
- ruokakomerostorage room
- pentteristorage room
- skafferistorage room
- konttuuristorage room
French garde-manger
- garde-mangerstorage room
German Speisekammer, Vorratskammer
- Speisekammerstorage room
- Vorratskammerstorage room
Greek κελλάρι, αποθήκη τροφίμων
- κελλάρι (kellári)storage room
- αποθήκη τροφίμων (apothíki trofímon)storage room
Hebrew מְזָוֶה
- מְזָוֶה (mezavé)storage room
Hungarian éléskamra, kamra
- éléskamrastorage room
- kamrastorage room
- spájzstorage room
- spejzstorage room
Irish pantrach, bialann
- pantrachstorage room
- bialannstorage room
Italian dispensa
- dispensastorage room
Japanese パントリー
- パントリー (pantorī)storage room
Korean 조리실, 펜트리
- 조리실 (jorisil)storage room
- 펜트리 (penteuri)storage room
Latin cella penaria, penaria
- cella penariastorage room
- penariastorage room
- cellariumstorage room
Māori pātaka kai, pātaka
- pātaka kaistorage room
- pātakastorage room
Persian آبدارخانه
- آبدارخانه (âbdâr-xâne)storage room
Polish spiżarnia, spiżarka
- spiżarniastorage room
- spiżarkastorage room
Portuguese despensa
- despensastorage room
Romanian cămară
- cămarăstorage room
Russian кладова́я, кладо́вка
- кладова́я (kladovája)storage room
- кладо́вка (kladóvka)storage room
- чула́н (čulán)storage room
Scottish Gaelic seòmar-bìdh
- seòmar-bìdhstorage room
Slovak špajza, komora
- špajzastorage room
- komorastorage room
Spanish despensa, alacena
- despensastorage room
- alacenastorage room
- alhacenastorage room
- repostestorage room
- lacenastorage room
- pantrystorage room
Swedish skafferi
- skafferistorage room
Tagalog paminggalan
- paminggalanstorage room
Thai ตู้กับข้าว
- ตู้กับข้าว (dtûu-gàp-kâao)storage room
Turkish kiler
- kilerstorage room
Ukrainian комо́ра, комірчи́на
- комо́ра (komóra)storage room
- комірчи́на (komirčýna)storage room
- комі́рка (komírka)storage room
- хи́жа (xýža)storage room
- чула́н (čulán)storage room
Welsh pantri
- pantristorage room
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with pantry
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Cite this entry
pantry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pantry
“pantry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pantry. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pantry,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pantry.
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