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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesbuanderie
Pronunciation / Transliteration: bwan.dʁi
"Il y a une machine à laver dans la buanderie."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A room in a house or building set aside for washing and drying clothes and household linens.
"She loaded the washing machine and started a cycle in the laundry room." - 2
A commercial facility equipped with coin-operated or card-operated washing machines and dryers for public use.
"Residents living in the apartment complex without in-unit machines share a communal laundry room in the basement."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term combines 'laundry', derived from the Middle English 'launder' (meaning a washer or washerwoman, from Latin lavare 'to wash'), with 'room', stemming from Old English 'rūm' meaning space or place. Initially referred to as washhouses or sculleries in larger historical estates, the dedicated indoor domestic 'laundry room' became standard in modern residential architecture during the mid-20th century.
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buanderie
Transliteration: bwan.dʁi
"Il y a une machine à laver dans la buanderie."
Waschküche
Transliteration: ˈvashˌkʏçə
"Die Waschküche befindet sich im Keller des Hauses."
lavanderia
Transliteration: la.vanˈde.rja
"Ho lasciato i vestiti bagnati nella lavanderia."
cuarto de lavado
Transliteration: ˈkwaɾ.to ðe laˈβa.ðo
"El cesto de la ropa sucia está en el cuarto de lavado."
lavandaria
Transliteration: lɐ.vɐ̃ˈda.ɾi.ɐ
"A máquina de secar roupa está na lavandaria."
कपड़े धोने का कमरा
Transliteration: kapṛe dhone ka kamra
"कपड़े धोने के कमरे में एक बड़ी वाशिंग मशीन है।"
洗衣房
Transliteration: xǐ yī fáng
"请把脏衣服拿到洗衣房去洗。"
세탁실
Transliteration: se-tak-sil
"어머니께서 세탁실에서 빨래를 개고 계십니다."
ランドリー室
Transliteration: randorī-shitsu
"新しいアパートには便利なランドリー室があります。"
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