- [uncountable] milk, cheese and other milk products
- The doctor told me to eat less red meat and dairy.
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- [countable] a place on a farm where milk is kept and where butter and cheese are madeTopics Farmingc1
- [countable] a company that sells milk, cheese and other milk products
- [countable] (New Zealand English) a small local shop
- I went to buy a paper at the corner dairy.
Word OriginMiddle English deierie, from deie ‘dairymaid’ (in Old English dǣge ‘female servant’), of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse deigja, also to dough and to the second element of Old English hlǣfdige (see lady).
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