dairy
noun /ˈdeəri/
/ˈderi/
(plural dairies)
- The doctor told me to eat less red meat and dairy.
- [countable] a place on a farm where milk is kept and where butter and cheese are madeWordfinderTopics Farmingc1
- arable
- barn
- crop
- cultivate
- dairy
- fallow
- farm
- graze
- livestock
- tractor
- [countable] a company that sells milk, eggs, cheese and other milk products
- [countable] (New Zealand English) a small local shop
- I went to buy a paper at the corner dairy.
Word OriginMiddle English deierie, from deie ‘dairymaid’ (in Old English dǣge ‘female servant’), of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse deigja, also to dough and to the second element of Old English hlǣfdige (see lady).