1. A commercial establishment for processing or selling milk and milk products.
2. A place where milk and cream are stored and processed.
3. A dairy farm.
4. The dairy business; dairying.

1. Of, for, or relating to milk or milk products: the dairy section at the grocery store.
2. Of or relating to dairying.
3. Judaism. Of, relating to, or intended for the consumption or preparation of milk or milk products exclusively, as dictated by dietary law.

[Middle English daierie : Middle English daie, dairymaid (from Old English dǣge, bread kneader) + Anglo-Norman -erie, place (from Old French; see -ery).]

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