LAUNDRYとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/
  • (Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): [ˈlɑn.dɹi]
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑn.dɹi/
  • 韻: -ɔːndɹi, -ɑndɹi

名詞

laundry (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 laundries)

1. A laundering; a washing.

   In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.

2. A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
   • 1883, Winser, Henry J., The Yellowstone National Park-A Manual for Tourists‎^[1], New York: G.P. Putnam Sons, page 46:

     Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.

3. That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered. [from c. 1930]

   You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.

   • 1935, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 69:

     Q. Did you use to do the washing around your house, too? / The Court: She did all the work of the house, I suppose. / Mr. Feltenstein: That's what I want to find out. / A. I gave the laundry to the laundry. / Q. What? / A. I gave the wash to the laundry.

4. (slang, 米国用法 football) A penalty flag.

同意語

• (action): washing
• (place): lavatory, laundromat, washateria, laundrette

派生語