🇬🇧🇨🇳 pantry - 食品储藏室 : English Lesson

Meaning of "pantry" ("食品储藏室"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A pantry is a small room or closet near the kitchen where a family keeps food, snacks, and cooking supplies, kind of like a secret storage room full of yummy things waiting to be eaten.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The pantry is the only place in the house where vegetables and chocolate have to live on the same shelf and pretend to get along.

When Mom said, “Dinner is in the pantry,” I found a box of cereal staring at me like, “Guess it’s just us tonight.”

Mom said, “Only take one snack from the pantry,” so I took one snack that was the size of my head.

Our pantry is like a museum of food, except you’re actually allowed to eat the exhibits—starting with the cookies, obviously.

When the lights went out, I bravely protected the pantry, because someone had to defend the chocolate chips.

She opened the pantry and found a small thief: a kitten pawing at a tin. The pantry shelf shook and jars clattered. She scooped the kitten, set the tin on the pantry counter, closed the pantry door, and ruffled the kitten. Later she peeped back into the pantry and laughed at the tiny thief.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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