Synonyms for ambry
Definitions
- n. 1
A cupboard or storage area in a church to hold books, communion vessels, vestments, etc. (usually in the sacristy); an armarium.
Portions of the consecrated bread from the Eucharist were stored or reserved in an ambry or tabernacle to be taken to the sick.
Related words
- Other spellings
- almery aumbrie aumbry
Forms
- Plural
- ambries → cupboards, pantries, wallpresses, armaria…
Example sentences
- cupboard A cabinet is a cupboard used for displaying things.
- pantry Tom put the food he had just bought in the pantry.
By length
- 6 letters
- pantry2
- 8 letters
- cupboard2, armarium
- 9 letters
- wallpress
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pantry2 = 2 syllables).