Buttery: Definition and part of speech

Buttery

  1. a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
  2. n. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
  3. n. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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