laundry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A laundering; a washing.

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

2. 2
   noun

   A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.

   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. 3
   noun

   That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.

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

4. 4
   noun

   workplace where clothes are washed and ironed

5. 5
   noun

   garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

6. 6
   noun

   A penalty flag.

7. 7
   noun

   A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.

Etymology

From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.