KITCHEN

kitchen

(noun) a room equipped for preparing meals

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

kitchen (plural kitchens)

A room or area for preparing food.

Cuisine.

(chiefly, African American Vernacular English) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.

(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.

(attributive) A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.

(slang) A public gaming room in a casino.

(obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.

Usage notes

• (area for preparing food): A kitchen fruit, kitchen apple, or the like, or one good for the kitchen, is one suitable for use in prepared foods.

Verb

kitchen (third-person singular simple present kitchens, present participle kitchening, simple past and past participle kitchened)

To do kitchen work; to prepare food.

To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.

(by extension) To embellish; to dress up.

Anagrams

• Chetnik, chetnik, ethnick, thicken

Proper noun

Kitchen

A surname.

Anagrams

• Chetnik, chetnik, ethnick, thicken

Source: Wiktionary

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Kitch"en, n. Etym: [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]

1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin.

2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. Kitchen garden. See under Garden.

– Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] " A brazen tub of kitchen lee." Ford.

– Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.

Kitch"en, v. t.

Definition: To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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