factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory
(noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
factory (plural factories)
(obsolete) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
Synonyms: fondaco (Italian contexts), tradepost, trading post
(now rare) The position or state of being a factor.
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
Synonym: manufactory
A device which produces or manufactures something.
A factory farm.
(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
(UK, slang) A police station.
factory (not comparable)
(colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
Source: Wiktionary
Fac"to*ry, n.; pl. Factories (-r. Etym: [Cf. F. factorerie.]
1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.
2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.
3. A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
