laundry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Clothes and other items that need to be washed, or that have just been washed.

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

2. 2
   noun

   The activity of washing clothes.

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

3. 3
   noun

   A place or business where clothes are washed and ironed.

   She dropped her shirts off at the laundry on the corner.

Common collocations

• hang laundry Verb + noun

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

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