laundry

noun laun·dry \ ˈlȯn-drē , ˈlän- \

Definition of laundry

plural laundries

1 a :a room for doing the family wash

b :a commercial laundering establishment

2 :clothes or linens that have been or are to be laundered

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Examples of laundry in a Sentence

There's a pile of dirty laundry in the laundry basket.
The patients' sheets are sent regularly to the hospital laundry.

Recent Examples of laundry from the Web

A few days later, Chris and Kitchens and a couple other guys started staying there, too, with their own laundry baskets.

— Longreads, "The Arsonist Was Like a Ghost," 2 Aug. 2017
Families can do multiple loads of laundry a week, and at a laundromat, that can cost $100 or more per month.

— marc vartabedian, The Atlantic, "The Decline of the American Laundromat," 31 July 2017
Police had been called to the apartment complex more than 5,000 times in the past five years, including for a homicide and the rape of a woman in a laundry room by a stranger, Maloney said.

— lynh bui, Washington Post, "Jury awards $8 million in sexual assault of 12-year-old girl in apartment elevator," 31 July 2017
The house is split into compartments, with each one containing two bedrooms with bathrooms, a living room, kitchen and laundry facility.

— paula rogo, Essence.com, "This Man Built A 20,000-Square-Foot Mansion For His Whole Family," 31 July 2017
One of the microbes, Moraxella osloensis, can cause infections in people with a weak immune system and is also known for making laundry stink, possibly explaining your sponge’s funky odor.

— giorgia guglielmi, Science | AAAS, "Your kitchen sponge harbors zillions of microbes. Cleaning it could make things worse," 28 July 2017
The girls waited tables in the dining room, washed laundry and learned to sew.

— kristina goetz, The Courier-Journal, "Orphans come back to ‘The Home’ that took them in when no one else could," 20 July 2017
William F. Buckley’s fight against the Birchers and their leader, Robert Welch, developed slowly and with no little anguish about airing the Right’s dirty laundry in public.

— dan mclaughlin, National Review, "Anti-Radical Muslims Need to Organize and Draw Lines," 20 July 2017
But year round, American Apparel lingerie met a specific need, closing the psychological and logistical gap between practical, cotton, period/laundry undies and capital-L Lingerie.

— kat stoeffel, The Cut, "Where Do You Buy Comfy-Slutty Underwear in a World Without American Apparel?," 17 July 2017

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First Known Use of laundry

1577

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LAUNDRY Defined for English Language Learners

laundry

noun

Definition of laundry for English Language Learners

: clothes, towels, sheets, etc., that need to be washed or that have been washed
: a business or place where clothes, towels, sheets, etc., are washed and dried

LAUNDRY Defined for Kids

laundry

noun laun·dry \ ˈlȯn-drē \

Definition of laundry for Students

plural laundries

1 :clothes or household linens that need to be washed or that have been washed

2 :a place where clothes and household linens are washed and dried

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