noun
kitchen
KIHCHN
noun
1
A room used for preparing and cooking food.
"They renovated the kitchen with new cabinets and a bigger fridge."
"The smell of fresh bread filled the kitchen."
2
A particular style or tradition of cooking.
"The restaurant blends French kitchen with local Caribbean flavours."
How to Use Kitchen
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe room where food is cooked, or by extension a style of cooking.
Common pairings
kitchen sink
open-plan kitchen
run a kitchen
Word Forms
kitchened past tense, kitchens plural, kitchens singular
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Etymology
From Old English cycene, itself borrowed from Latin coquina, "kitchen," which comes from coquere, "to cook." The Latin root also gave English the separate word "cuisine," which arrived later through French and is used more for the style of cooking than the room itself.