laundry in English: Clothes that need washing or have just been washed; also the job of washing them. (noun)

Translation

Clothes that need washing or have just been washed; also the job of washing them.

Word origin

From Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavare, meaning to wash.

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"Do the laundry" means wash the dirty clothes.

drying .

Here "the laundry" means the washed clothes themselves.

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Laundry is uncountable: some laundry, never a laundry or laundries.

wash

To make something clean with water, and often with soap.

clothes

The things people wear, such as shirts, trousers and coats.

clean

To take away dirt from something so it is no longer dirty.

machine

A thing with moving parts that uses power to do work for people.

dry

Not wet; with no water on it or in it.

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