kitchen
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n/
The English word “kitchen” has 12 meanings listed here.
noun
- A room or area for preparing food.
- Cuisine; style of cooking.
- The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
- The percussion section of an orchestra.
- A utensil for roasting meat.
- A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
- A public gaming room in a casino.
- Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.
- The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.
verb
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…
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