freezer

UK/ˈfɹiːzə/US/ˈfɹizɚ/

nounB1Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,633 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: freezers

A freezer is the coldest part of the fridge, where the ice cream lives. Put it in the freezer, a chest freezer, the freezer is full.

Minus eighteen degrees is the standard setting, and freezing does not kill bacteria — it only stops them multiplying, which is why food must be handled properly after thawing. A full freezer costs less to run than an empty one.

Definitions of freezer

1nounfreezerThe coldest compartment, used for frozen food.B1
“Put the ice cream back in the freezer before it melts.”
- Said"Check the freezer; I'm sure there's a pizza at the bottom."
- WrittenThe freezers in the garage held a year of soup and nobody could say which was which.
- UsedLabel everything before it goes in the freezer, with the date.
- ContrastA freezer, not a fridge. A fridge keeps food cold for days; a freezer keeps it solid for months. fridge →
- Not thisA cool bag is not a freezer, whatever it says. A freezer plugs in and stays below zero.
- Exchange"Freezer or cupboard?""Freezer. We won't eat it this week."
- SimplyThe peas are in the freezer. They are very cold.
Patternin / out of the freezer · a chest / upright freezer · freezer bag / drawer · fridge-freezer

freezer is an appliance.

Remember it

FREEZEr → where things FREEZE

It is freeze with -er on the end: the place where the ice cream freezes hard and the meat keeps for months.

hooks ontofreeze

Where it comes from

Middle English
fresen
English
freeze
English, today
freezer

From freeze + -er. freeze comes from Middle English fresen. From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-West Germanic freusan, from Proto-Germanic freusaną (“to freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European prews- (“to freeze; frost”). 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Definitions of freezer

1nounfreezerThe coldest compartment, used for frozen food.B1

“Put the ice cream back in the freezer before it melts.”

Said"Check the freezer; I'm sure there's a pizza at the bottom."
WrittenThe freezers in the garage held a year of soup and nobody could say which was which.
UsedLabel everything before it goes in the freezer, with the date.
ContrastA freezer, not a fridge. A fridge keeps food cold for days; a freezer keeps it solid for months. fridge →
Not thisA cool bag is not a freezer, whatever it says. A freezer plugs in and stays below zero.
Exchange"Freezer or cupboard?""Freezer. We won't eat it this week."
SimplyThe peas are in the freezer. They are very cold.

Patternin / out of the freezer · a chest / upright freezer · freezer bag / drawer · fridge-freezer

freezer is an appliance.