kitchen

[ kich-uhn ]

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noun

a room or place equipped for cooking.
culinary department; cuisine: This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen.

the staff or equipment of a kitchen.

adjective

of, relating to, or designed for use in a kitchen: kitchen window; kitchen curtains.
employed in or assigned to a kitchen: kitchen help.

of or resembling a pidginized language, especially one used for communication between employers and servants or other employees who do not speak the same language.

Origin of kitchen

before 1000; Middle English kichene,Old English cycene ≪ Latin coquīna, equivalent to coqu(ere) to cook + -īna-ine¹; cf. cuisine

Other words from kitchen

kitch·en·less, adjective
kitch·en·y, adjective
outkitchen, noun

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How to use kitchen in a sentence

Whole Foods and kitchens across the country should probably start carving out a (very chilled) section for him now.
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All these talented chefs are graduating from these old-guard kitchens and branching out and the market is saturated.
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In addition to being alchemists in the test kitchens, producers must also be stewards of the land.
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American field kitchens arrived with everything to cater to the raw hunger of battle, including ice cream machines.
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Communal kitchens boil up water for noodles and everyone pitches in.
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Meanwhile, the judicious establishment of free soup kitchens in the streets alleviated the necessities of the mob.
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And there was a wall round about compassing the four little courts, and there were kitchens built under the rows round about.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
She doesn't hold with Lords poking their noses into people's kitchens, anyway.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 16, 1917. | Various
They had a merry night cooking (p. 150) bacon and eggs, frying pork, making hot cakes in the kitchens.
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Two kitchens make it possible for two families to occupy the house at the same time.
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British Dictionary definitions for kitchen

kitchen

/ (ˈkɪtʃɪn) /

noun

- a room or part of a building equipped for preparing and cooking food
- (as modifier): a kitchen table

Origin of kitchen

Old English cycene, ultimately from Late Latin coquīna, from Latin coquere to cook; see kiln

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Other Idioms and Phrases with kitchen

kitchen

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

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