Definitions for dairies

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dairies dair·y

Spelling: [dair-ee]

IPA: /ˈdɛər i/

Dairies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in dairies (adeiirs).

Definitions for dairies

noun

1. an establishment, as a room, building, or buildings, where milk and cream are kept and butter and cheese are made.
2. a shop or company that sells milk, butter, etc.
3. the business of a dairy farm, concerned with the production and treatment of milk and cream and the manufacture of butter and cheese.
4. dairy farm.
5. milk, or products made from or containing milk; dairy products, as butter and cheese:
6. (in Jewish dietary law) foods, including all milk products, eggs, fish, vegetables, etc., that may be eaten at a meal in which milk is served, in contrast to meat and meat products, which may not.

adjective

1. of or relating to a dairy or a dairy farm.
2. relating to or for milk, cream, butter, cheese, etc.:
3. (in Jewish dietary law) of or relating to dairy, in contrast to meat and meat products.

Origin of dairies

1250-1300; Middle English daierie, equivalent to daie, deie dairymaid (Old English dǣge bread maker; cognate with Old Norse deigja; see lady) + -erie Examples for dairies

Down in the marsh they were cutting ice for the dairies—it was high time too!

It is feared that this will bear hardly on breweries and dairies.

The Bretons also say that there are spirits who silently skim the milk-pans in the dairies.

Flo Yes, by the way, do you understand anything about dairies in America?

I have also been told that there are Gipsies in the county of Kent, who have hop farms and dairies.

The inhabitants are supported by manufactures, grazing and dairies.

I superintend the dairies; the butter and the cheese are the produce of my industry.

He said nearly always as was likely since there was only a neck of land between the two dairies.

Then there are the dairies, with coffee, a unique institution.

There must be hundreds of canneries and dairies and packing plants over the country.