kitchen

Meaning

Noun

1. A room or area for preparing food.
2. (broadly) 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. (dated) A utensil for roasting meat.
6. (attributive) 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. (broadly) To embellish; to dress up.

Synonyms

cuisine

cookhouse

galley

cooking place

cook-house

hearth

cookery

fireplace

cooking

cooking area

baker’s shop

cook house

noob

scullery

stove

wardrobe

paper kite

culinary arts

state of finances

cookroom

-

gorminʼ region

back

🔙

mossy

bank

🏦

chest

closet

cocina

cooker

cuddy

culinary

gastronomy

kitchenette

kitchens

lantern

🏮

Translations

cuisine

Küche

cucina

cocina

keuken

κουζίνα

cozinha

mutfak

cuina

coquina

مطبخ

μαγειρείο

cosina

kookgelegenheid

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɪt͡ʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: kychyn

Inherited from Old English: cyċen

Cognate with French: -

In summary

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).

Sentences

These rustic throwbacks adjoin to rear sheds containing a kitchen and bathroom .