laundry
A laundering; a washing.
Example
“In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.”
Other meanings
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
“You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.”
Synonyms
- wash
- washing
A kind of
- garment
- white goods
Related words
- laundrymaid
- laundryowner
- nonlaundry
- coin-op laundry
- coin-operated laundry
- dirty laundry
- laundry basket
- laundry chute
- laundry stove
- laundryless
- laundry list
- laundry mark
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "lavandaria".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “laundry” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.