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Commissary vs Buttery - What's the difference?

commissary | buttery |

As nouns the difference between commissary and buttery

is that commissary is a store primarily serving soldiers while buttery is a room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.

As an adjective buttery is

made with or tasting of butter.

commissary

English

Noun

(commissaries)
  • A store primarily serving soldiers.
  • A cafeteria at a movie studio.
  • One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
  • * John Donne
    • Great Destiny, the Commissary of God
  • An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
    • (Ayliffe)

    buttery

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) boterie, from . The form was probably influenced by butter.

    Noun

    (butteries)
  • A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 458:
    • Pretty Pia from the buttery was a slut who was working her way through every knight in the castle.
  • (UK) A room in a university where snacks are sold.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Made with or tasting of butter.
    • The buttery -tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.
  • Resembling butter in some way.
    • The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.
    Derived terms
    * butteriness