Kitchen

  • 21kitchen — [OE] The Latin word for ‘kitchen’ was coquīna, a derivative of the verb coquere ‘cook’ (ultimate source of English cook, culinary, kiln, precocious, etc). It had a colloquial variant, *cocīna, which spread far and wide throughout the Roman empire …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 22kitchen — [[t]kɪ̱tʃɪn[/t]] ♦♦ kitchens N COUNT A kitchen is a room that is used for cooking and for household jobs such as washing dishes. → See also soup kitchen …

    English dictionary

  • 23kitchen*/*/*/ — [ˈkɪtʃən] noun [C] a room where you prepare and cook food, and wash dishes We sometimes eat in the kitchen.[/ex] kitchen utensils/appliances[/ex] …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 24kitchen — [OE] The Latin word for ‘kitchen’ was coquīna, a derivative of the verb coquere ‘cook’ (ultimate source of English cook, culinary, kiln, precocious, etc). It had a colloquial variant, *cocīna, which spread far and wide throughout the Roman empire …

    Word origins

  • 25kitchen — noun /ˈkɪtʃən,ˈkɪtʃɪn/ a) A room or area for preparing food. For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments …

    Wiktionary

  • 26kitchen — kitch·en || kɪtʃɪn n. room or area in which food is prepared and cooked adj. of the kitchen …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 27kitchen — noun 1》 a room where food is prepared and cooked. 2》 informal the percussion section of an orchestra. 3》 [as modifier] (of a language) in an uneducated or domestic form: kitchen Swahili. Origin OE cycene, of W. Gmc origin, based on L. coquere to… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 28kitchen — kitch•en [[t]ˈkɪtʃ ən[/t]] n. 1) a room or place equipped for cooking or preparing food 2) culinary department 3) the staff or equipment of a kitchen 4) ling. of or resembling a pidgin language, esp. as used for communication between employers… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 29kitchen — see if you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 30kitchen —  to kitchen, to use thriftily. N …

    A glossary of provincial and local words used in England