laundry
Other forms: laundries
Laundry refers to the clothes and bedding that you can wash in your washing machine or at the laundromat. Nothing smells quite as good as clean laundry.
When you do your laundry, you wash your dirty clothes, as well as any towels, sheets, and other linens that could use a wash too. A laundry room is the place in an apartment building, business, or dormitory where there are washers and dryers. Sometimes people send their laundry out to a commercial laundry, where they pay someone else to wash their things. Laundry has a Latin root, lavare, "to wash."
Definitions of laundry
-
garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
-
type of:
-
garment
an article of clothing
-
household linen, white goods
drygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth
-
garment
-
workplace where clothes are washed and ironed
-
types:
-
Laundromat, launderette
a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers
-
washhouse
a building or outbuilding where laundry is done
-
Laundromat, launderette
Pronunciation
US
/lɔndri/
UK
/ˈlɔndri/
Cite this entry
Style:
MLA
- MLA
- APA
- Chicago
A paragraph of text
Copy citationDISCLAIMER: These example sentences appear in various news sources and books to reflect the usage of the word ‘laundry'.
Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Vocabulary.com or its editors.
Send us feedback
Word Family
EDITOR'S CHOICE
Look up laundry for the last time
Close your vocabulary gaps with personalized learning that focuses on teaching the words you need to know.
