kitchen

American  

[kich-uhn] / ˈkɪtʃ ən /

noun

1. a room or place equipped for cooking.

   The apartment has a full kitchen with an oven and dishwasher.

2. the staff involved in food preparation in a restaurant or eatery.

   He called the kitchen to make sure they could accommodate his allergies.

3. culinary department; cuisine.

   This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen.

4. the equipment and fixtures needed to make a room suitable for cooking.

   We bought a kitchen, but it still needs to be installed.

5. Sports. (on a pickleball court) a seven-foot zone on either side of the net from which players are prohibited from returning the ball before it hits the ground.

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or designed for use in a room equipped for cooking.

   There's a view of the yard from the kitchen window.

   We got a new, more colorful set of kitchen curtains.

2. employed in or assigned to a place or business that makes food.

   Kitchen staff and volunteers worked together to feed over 500 food-insecure people.

kitchen British  

/ ˈkɪtʃɪn /

noun

1. 1. a room or part of a building equipped for preparing and cooking food

   2. ( as modifier )

      a kitchen table

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kitchen Idioms  

1. see everything but the kitchen sink; if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

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Other Word Forms

• kitchenless adjective
• kitcheny adjective
• outkitchen noun

Etymology

Origin of kitchen

First recorded before 1000; Middle English kichene, Old English cycene ≪ Latin coquīna, equivalent to coqu(ere) “to cook” + -īna -ine ¹; cuisine

Example Sentences

You could brave the supermarket on their behalf, hunting and gathering the basics — bread, butter, bananas, eggs — for a gentle kitchen restock.

From Salon

“The appointments of new CEOs follow long tenure periods under the previous management, and therefore we see possibilities for a combination of strategy resets, asset impairments, and ‘kitchen sinking’ guidance,” says analyst Craig Wong-Pan.

From The Wall Street Journal

He wants to see legislation about transparency around what kitchen people's food comes from and the parent company behind it.

From BBC

It was the early 1980s: faded Wranglers, girls in leg warmers, boys with bowl cuts shaped by their mothers at the kitchen table.

From The Wall Street Journal

If you were working in a kitchen as a dishwasher at 13, chances are you were not officially on the books.

From MarketWatch

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