kitchen

Meaning

Noun

1. A room or area for preparing food.
2. Cuisine; style of cooking.
3. The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
4. The percussion section of an orchestra.
5. A utensil for roasting meat.
6. A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
7. (slang) A public gaming room in a casino.
8. (obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.
9. The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.

Verb

1. To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
2. To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
3. To embellish; to dress up.

Concepts

kitchen

cuisine

cookhouse

galley

cook-house

cooking place

fireplace

hearth

cookery

cooking

cook house

cooking area

baker’s shop

cocina

state of finances

lantern

kitchenette

scullery

culinary

cookroom

cooker

stove

back

bank

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cuddy

gastronomy

gorminʼ region

mossy

chest

closet

paper kite

wardrobe

noob

culinary arts

kitchens

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɪt͡ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).