dairy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Food made from milk, such as cheese, butter, and yogurt.

   She stopped eating dairy and felt much healthier.

2. 2
   adj

   Relating to milk and the products made from it.

   The region is famous for its dairy farms.

3. 3
   noun

   A place where milk is processed or where dairy products are made or sold.

   Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.

Inherited from Middle English deyerie (“dairy, dairy farm”), from Anglo-Norman deyerie (“dairy”), from deye (“dairymaid”) + -erie (“-ery”); by surface analysis, dey (“dairymaid”) + -ry. Cognate with Scots dery, dyrie.

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