kitchen
Americannoun
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a room or place equipped for cooking.
The apartment has a full kitchen with an oven and dishwasher.
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the staff involved in food preparation in a restaurant or eatery.
He called the kitchen to make sure they could accommodate his allergies.
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culinary department; cuisine.
This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen.
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the equipment and fixtures needed to make a room suitable for cooking.
We bought a kitchen, but it still needs to be installed.
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Sports. (on a pickleball court) a seven-foot zone on either side of the net from which players are prohibited from returning the ball before it hits the ground.
adjective
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of, relating to, or designed for use in a room equipped for cooking.
There's a view of the yard from the kitchen window.
We got a new, more colorful set of kitchen curtains.
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employed in or assigned to a place or business that makes food.
Kitchen staff and volunteers worked together to feed over 500 food-insecure people.
noun
Other Word Forms
- kitchenless adjective
- kitcheny adjective
- outkitchen noun
Etymology
Origin of kitchen
First recorded before 1000; Middle English kichene, Old English cycene ≪ Latin coquīna, equivalent to coqu(ere) “to cook” + -īna -ine 1; cuisine
Example Sentences
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Their waiter Amir, who preferred not to share his last name, ferried packed peach-and-pineapple hookahs and tall glasses of pressed watermelon juice from the cafe’s kitchen to the table.
From Los Angeles Times
The cooking-based reality show sees 10 young chefs thrown into a Barcelona kitchen where they are not only filmed competing against each other, but also once service ends.
From BBC
On that snowy night in New Jersey, Sean Gray surveyed the dinner crowd from behind the kitchen door.
The home features six bedrooms and nine bathrooms, as well as a luxurious chef’s kitchen, a home theater, two wine rooms, and a full gym.
From MarketWatch
A man in a hoodie and mask, who authorities said was Bradbury, walks into a kitchen with an aerosol can, allegedly a poison for bugs, and sprays everything in sight.
From Los Angeles Times
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