English Explanatory Dictionary

kitchen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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. A public gaming room in a casino.
  8. 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.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A placename
  3. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio, United States
  4. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States
  5. Ellipsis of Kitchen Creek
  6. Ellipsis of Kitchen Run

Pronunciation

/ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n/ En-uk-kitchen.ogg /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/ En-us-kitchen.ogg /ˈkit͡ʃin/

Word forms

kitchen kitchens kitchin kitchening kitchened

Etymology

From Middle English kichene, kichen, 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).

Related words

Kitchener Kitching Kitchin

Derived words

back kitchen child of the kitchen cloud kitchen dark kitchen dirty kitchen everything and the kitchen sink everything but the kitchen sink everything including the kitchen sink field kitchen fork found in kitchen Frankfurt kitchen galley kitchen ghost kitchen hot bread kitchen if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen invisible kitchen kitchenable kitchenalia kitchenary kitchen bitch kitchen bouquet kitchen boy kitchen-boy kitchen brigade kitchen cabinet kitchen cake kitchendom kitchen drawer kitchen dresser kitchener kitchenet kitchenette kitchen-fee kitchenful kitchen-garden kitchen garden kitchenhand kitchen hood kitchening kitchen island kitchen knife kitchenless kitchenlike kitchenmaid kitchenman kitchenness kitchen paper kitchen pass kitchen police kitchen roll kitchenry kitchen salt kitchenscape kitchen sign kitchen sink kitchen sink drama kitchen-sinkery kitchen sink realism kitchen sink regression kitchen sinky

Translations

Abkhaz: амаҵурҭа Afrikaans: kombuis Aklanon: kusina Albanian: kuzhinë Southern Altai: аш-курсак Southern Altai: кухня Arabic: مَطْبَخ Arabic: مطبخ Arabic: مُرَكَّب Arabic: كوزينة Arabic: كشينة Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܒܘܼܫܵܠܵܐ Armenian: խոհանոց Assamese: পাকঘৰ Assamese: ৰান্ধনিঘৰ Assamese: আখল Asturian: cocina Azerbaijani: mətbəx Bashkir: аласыҡ Basque: sukalde Belarusian: ку́хня Bengali: রান্নাঘর Bengali: পাকঘর Bhojpuri: रसोईघर Central Bikol: kusina Bole: kicin Breton: kegin Bulgarian: ку́хня Burmese: စားဖိုဆောင် Burmese: မီးဖိုချောင် Catalan: cuina Chechen: кухни Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏍᏓᏴᏗ Chinese Cantonese: 廚房 /厨房 Chinese: чўфон Chinese: хуәфон Chinese Mandarin: 廚房 /厨房 Choctaw: aboha ahoponi Ngazidja Comorian: paya Coptic: ⲙⲁⲛⲥⲁϩϯ Czech: kuchyně Dalmatian: cočaina Danish: køkken Dutch: keuken Emilian: cuséna Esperanto: kuirejo Estonian: köök Ewe: dzodoƒe Faroese: køkur Fijian: vale ni kuro
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