Laundry

Definition: Laundry

Laundry

Noun

1. Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering.

2. Workplace where clothes are washed and ironed.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "laundry" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Etymology: Laundry \Laun"dry\, noun; plural Laundries. [from Old English expression lavendrie, Old French lavanderie. See Launder.]. (references)

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Laundry

Cleanness

Lavatory, laundry, washhouse; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman; scavenger, dustman, sweep; white wings

Furnace

Hothouse, bakehouse, washhouse; laundry; conservatory;

Receptacle

Attic, loft, garret, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold, cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom; (depository); lumber room; dairy, laundry.

Crosswords: Laundry

It must be hard living your life off a couple of scraps of paper. You mix your laundry list with your grocery list you'll end up eating your underwear for breakfast (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

Of course, that's Nikolai, our laundry boy. Is he the reason I'm being disturbed (The Guns of Navarone; writing credit: Alistair MacLean; Carl Foreman)

Maggie, don't you have laundry to do (That's My Bush!; writing credit: Alon Kaplan)

$40? I pay my maid $60, she doesn't do my laundry, and I'm gettin' nothing (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

And when it's time to do your laundry, where's Ray Bolger (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

They love dirty laundry (Dirty Laundry; performing artist: Don Henley)

I will do laundry if you pay all the bills (WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE?; performing artist: Paula Cole)

Nobody at the back door gonna throw my laundry out (Little Miss Can't Be Wrong; performing artist: Spin Doctors)

Marriage is an expensive way of getting your laundry done for free. (references; author: unknown)

Adult Education Topic: Fundamental differences between the laundry hamper and the floor. Pictures and explanatory graphics. (references; author: unknown)

Donald's Dog Laundry (1940)

Laundry Blues (1930)

The Laundry (1924)

A Laundry Clean-Up (1917)

Laundry Liz (1916)

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References

• Coinmach Laundry Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Laundry Systems Group: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Household Laundry Equipment Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Household Laundry Equipment in Asia (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Laundry Aids: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

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Books

• Manston's Travel Key Europe: How to Make a Phone Call, Do Your Laundry, Find a Toilet, and Much More (reference)

• Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices (reference)

• How the Queen Cleans Everything: Handy Advice for a Clean House, Cleaner Laundry, and a Year of Timely Tips (reference)

• France Laundry Detergent Report 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Germany Laundry Detergent Report 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of The Coin Laundry And Drycleaning Industry (reference)

• New Era Laundry & Cleaning Lines (reference)

• Household Laundry Detergents & Fabric Conditioners (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dirty Laundry (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Laundry Service (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Little Boy Laundry Announcements and Thank-You Notes (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Chemist Harold Griffin extracts an enzyme from a bacterium found in shipworms that is a powerful new stain remover for laundry detergents. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Base Hospital No. 9. Chateauroux, France : Interior of laundry. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U. S. Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Laundry. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photographed during the 1890s, with her crew's laundry drying forward. Credit: NAVY.

At sea under steam and sail, circa 1894-97, with laundry drying on her foremast rigging and many crewmen on deck. Credit: NAVY.

Richmond Steam Laundry, Richmond Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

African American women and men posed by machinery, Lexington Laundry, Richmond, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Red Chinese laundry. Credit: Library of Congress.

Puerto Rican laundry. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rack, ironing board and iron, tubs, and washing machine in a model home laundry. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world

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Health

If you have recently changed your soap or laundry detergent or have added a fabric softener, you might consider stopping the new product to see if the symptoms remain. (references)

Personal protective gear should be decontaminated upon removal at the end of the day. If the coveralls are not disposable, they should be laundered on site. If no laundry facilities are available, the coveralls should be immersed in liquid disinfectant until they can be washed. (references)

Business

The products that spent the most for advertising were shampoo, laundry detergents, soft drinks, soap, beer, motorbikes and toothpaste. (references)

The health sector is in the process of privatizing some support services, particularly catering and laundry services in hospitals, which presents an opportunity for the companies who offer these specialized services. (references)

Support services such as waste disposal, laboratory tests for diagnosis, catering, hospital cleaning, laundry, etc. are said to be inefficient at times, thus a dedicated foreign professional service providing quality at reasonable prices could find potential market access. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Most promising sub-sectors include: laundry equipment, bakery equipment, dishwashers, kitchen equipment, and refrigeration equipment. (references)

Hungary

Some examples of this type of franchise would include: car wash service, equipment/home maintenance, laundry and cleaning services, etc. (references)

Israel

Best sales prospects for non-food franchises exist for laundry and dry cleanings, computer training, office supplies, toys and building materials. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

Women sometimes lack access to sanitary napkins and often have only one change of clothes, leaving them naked during the washing of their laundry. (references)

Mexico

He went through electronic magnetic doors, past video cameras and motion sensors to the trash depository, and then boarded a waiting laundry truck to exit the prison. (references)

Trade

West Bank

Some goods such as cigarettes and laundry powders now have Arabic or Arabic/English stamps labeled "Only for sale in the West Bank and Gaza." U.S. businesses should check with a Palestinian importer for exact specifications. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Room laundry service is usually offered. (references)

Philippines

Laundry and dry-cleaning facilities are available. (references)

Philippines

Tailors abound, and laundry and dry-cleaning facilities are available. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "laundry": active laundry ♦ coin laundry ♦ do the laundry ♦ laundry bag ♦ laundry basket ♦ laundry bill ♦ laundry cart ♦ laundry chute ♦ laundry detergent ♦ laundry equipment ♦ laundry holdup and monitoring tank ♦ laundry list ♦ laundry machine ♦ laundry man ♦ laundry service ♦ laundry stick ♦ laundry truck ♦ white laundry. Additional references.

Beginning with "laundry": laundry-basket, laundry-fresh, laundry-room, laundry-steam, laundry-workers.

Ending with "laundry": dirty-laundry, family-cum-laundry.

Albanian

lavanderi (wash house), larje-hekurosje rrobash, rroba (clothes, dress, duds, raiment, things, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wardrobe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكان الغسيل, ‏ملابس مغسولة, ‏مصبغة, ‏غسيل (lavement, lye, wash, washing). (various references)

Blackfoot

ssiiststaki (to do laundry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обществена пералня (launderette), пране (ironing, wash, washing), перачница, пералня (wash house). (various references)

Chinese 

洗衣店 . (various references)

Czech

prádlo (clothes, linen, wash, washing), prádelna (laundromat, wash house, washing-house). (various references)

Danish

vaskerj. (various references)

Dutch

wasserij, wasserý, dienstverlening aan particulieren (beauty treatment and other personal services:cleaning, cosmetic services, domestic science, dry-cleaning, hairdressing, one of the 25 fields of education in the ISCED which includes the following educational programmes/subject groups:hotel and catering, personal services, sports and leisure, travel and tourism). (various references)

Esperanto

lesivejo. (various references)

Farsi 

لباسشوءی , رختشوی خانه , رخت های شستنی . (various references)

Finnish

pesulaitos (launderette, the cleaners), pesula (launderette, the cleaners), henkilökohtaiset palvelut (beauty treatment and other personal services:cleaning, cosmetic services, domestic science, dry-cleaning, hairdressing, one of the 25 fields of education in the ISCED which includes the following educational programmes/subject groups:hotel and catering, personal services, sports and leisure, travel and tourism). (various references)

French

lessive, lavanderie, services aux particuliers, blanchisserie (laundering), blanchissage (laundering). (various references)

German

wäscherei, wäsche (linen, underwear, undies, wash, washing, washings), Waschanstalt (lavatory, washing-accomodation, wash-place, wash-room). (various references)

Greek 

μπουγάδα (wash, washing), πλύση (ablution, lotion, rinsing, wash, washing), πλυσταριό (wash house), πλυντήριο (washing machine, washstand). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכבסה, חדר כביסה (washroom), כביסה (laundering, wash, washing), כבסים (washing). (various references)

Hungarian

szennyes (dirty, drossy, filthy, impure, messy, scuzzy, turbid, wash), mosókonyha (wash-house, washing-house). (various references)

Indonesian

penatu, cucian (manner of washing, wash). (various references)

Italian

lavanderia (launderette). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ランゲルハンス島 (athletic-style shirt, bag, inside-the-park home run, isle of Langerhans, knapsack, lance, Lancel, lancer, land, landing, landing bahn, landmark, LANDSAT, landscape, lantern, lanthanum, Lanvin, launch, launcher, lingerie, lunch, lunch set, luncheon, lunchtime, lunchtime concert, meeting, pensioneer, random, random sampling, rumble seat, runner, runner's high, running, running cost, running home run, running homer, running stock, running vest, run-through, runtime, satchel with back straps, tank top), 洗濯　 (washing), 洗濯屋 (launderette, laundromat), 洗濯 (washing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ランドリー , せんたくや (launderette, laundromat), せんたく (choice, selection, washing). (various references)

Korean 

세탁물 (Laundries). (various references)

Manx

thie nieeaghyn, thie niaghyn (wash house), niaghyn (laundering, wash, washing), eaddagh nieet. (various references)

Norwegian

vaskeri (launderette). (various references)

Pig Latin

aundrylay.(various references)

Portuguese

lavanderia (laundress, washhouse, washing-house). (various references)

Romanian

spãlãtorie (washhouse), rufe spãlate. (various references)

Russian 

прачечная;стирка, прачечная (launderette, wash house, wash-house, washing-house). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veš (wash), servis za pranje rublja, rublje (linen), perionica (wash house). (various references)

Spanish

lavadero (Buddle), lavandería (launderette). (various references)

Swedish

tvättinrättning (dry-cleaning establishment), tvätt (wash, washing). (various references)

Thai

กิจกรรมซักรีดเสื้อผ้า. (various references)

Turkish

çamaşırhane (coin-op, launderette, laundromat, washeteria), çamaşır (clothes, linen, washing, washings). (various references)

Ukrainian

білизна (argent, clothes, snow, snow white, underlinen, washing, white, whiteness), пральня (washhouse). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quần áo đã giặt là xong, hiệu giặt quần áo đưa giặt, chỗ giặt là quần áo. (various references)

Welsh

golchdy (wash-house). (various references)

lavandarium. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "laundry": laundryman, laundrymen. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Laundry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aundray, laundary, launddry, laundrier, Leandro. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lurdan, uranyl.

-2 letters: dural, lardy, lunar, lyard, randy, ulnad, ulnar, unary, unlay, yauld, yulan.

-3 letters: aryl, auld, darn, dray, dual, duly, dura, durn, lady, land, lard, laud, luna, luny, nard, nary, nurd, nurl, rand, ruly, rynd, ulan, ulna, undy, yald, yard, yarn, yaud, yuan.

-4 letters: and, any, dal, day, dry, dun, lad, lar, lay.

+1 letter: underlay.

+2 letters: diurnally, endurably, roundelay, underlays, underplay.

+3 letters: laundryman, laundrymen, playground, roundelays, underplays, undulatory, untowardly.

+4 letters: dangerously, delusionary, denumerably, glandularly, playgrounds, polyandrous, redundantly, underlaying, underplayed, undesirably, unendurably, unguardedly, unweariedly.

+5 letters: fraudulently, industrially, landlubberly, prudentially, radiolucency, slanderously, underlayment, underplaying, unmanneredly, valetudinary.