food pantry definition
food pantry. food pantry. noun. An organization or group that sorts and packages donated foodstuffs for distribution directly to people in need. The building or location where such distribution takes place.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Pantry. A pantry is a room where food, provisions, dishes, or linens are stored and served in an ancillary capacity to the kitchen. The derivation of the word is from the same source as the Old French term paneterie; that is from pain, the French form of the Latin panis for bread.