Definition of Dairy

1. Noun. A farm where dairy products are produced.

Exact synonyms: Dairy Farm
Generic synonyms: Farm

Definition of Dairy

1. n. The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.

Definition of Dairy

1. Noun. A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese. ¹

2. Noun. A shop selling dairy products. ¹

3. Noun. (also ''dairy products'' or ''dairy produce'') Products produced from milk. ¹

4. Noun. (New Zealand) A corner-store, superette or 'mini-mart' of some description. ¹

5. Adjective. referring to products produced from milk. ¹

6. Adjective. referring to the milk production and processing industries ¹

7. Adjective. (British) on food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy ice cream) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dairy

1. an establishment dealing in milk products [n DAIRIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dairy

daint
daintier
dainties
daintiest
daintified
daintify
daintily
daintiness
daintinesses
daintrel
daintrels
dainty
daiquiri
daiquiris
dairies
dairy (current term)
dairy cattle
dairy cow
dairy farm
dairy farmer
dairy farming
dairy product
dairy products
dairygirl
dairygirls
dairying
dairyings
dairyland
dairylands
dairyless

Literary usage of Dairy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by New Jersey, Dept. of Agriculture, New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture (1918)
"WM Regan, dairy Husbandman, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station The question of the dairy outlook in New Jersey at present is a rather large one. ..."

2. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1912)
"dairy products of Warren Co.; growing atten tlon paid to production of milk ... No dairy products exported from Washington Co.; land and climate here well ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"ABOUT twelve years ago there was a revival of interest in the dairy farming of this country. The British dairy Farmers' Association was founded in 1876, ..."

4. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1879)
"ARW It seems somewhat ungracious to say one word in disparagement of any part of an undertaking which promises so well as does Mr. Sheldon's " dairy Farming ..."

5. The Todas by William Halse Rivers Rivers (1906)
"The palol stands in the outer room and performs the dairy operations proper ... The object of the screen is to keep the sacred objects of the dairy from the ..."

6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"dairy cattle, many giving scarcely enough milk to raise a calf. ... They are hardy in constitution and much esteemed for beef, but very poor dairy cattle. ..."

7. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1902)
"Chief in Department of dairy Husbandry. Agricultural Experimen Station.] The Department of dairy Husbandry, of the University of Illinois Agricultural ..."

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