kitchen
noun
adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for kitchen
kitchen
noun
- a room or part of a building equipped for preparing and cooking food
- (as modifier)a kitchen table
Word Origin for kitchen
Word Origin and History for kitchen
kitchen
c.1200, from Old English cycene, from West Germanic *kokina (cf. Middle Dutch cökene, Old High German chuhhina, German Küche, Danish kjøkken), probably borrowed from Vulgar Latin *cocina (cf. French cuisine, Spanish cocina), variant of Latin coquina "kitchen," from fem. of coquinus "of cooks," from coquus "cook," from coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)).
The Old English word might be directly from Vulgar Latin. Kitchen cabinet "informal but powerful set of advisors" is American English slang, 1832, originally in reference to administration of President Andrew Jackson. Kitchen midden (1863) in archaeology translates Danish kjøkken mødding. Surname Kitchener ("one in charge of a monastic kitchen") is from early 14c. Old English also had cycenðenung "service in the kitchen."
Idioms and Phrases with kitchen
kitchen
see everything but the kitchen sink; if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.