SCULLERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scullery mean? 

• SCULLERY (noun)
  The noun SCULLERY has 1 sense:

1. a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done

  Familiarity information: SCULLERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCULLERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scullery" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

The purposes for which a few shapeless pantries and a comfortless scullery were deemed sufficient at Fullerton, were here carried on in appropriate divisions, commodious and roomy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)