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Kitchen

//ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable

    "Steve Kitchen was a fast-talking, enthusiastic entrepreneur who had developed a couple of successful Atari video games."

  2. 2
    A placename; An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio, United States countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename; An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename; Ellipsis of Kitchen Creek abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
  5. 5
    A placename; Ellipsis of Kitchen Run abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A room or area for preparing food.

    "We cook in the kitchen."

  2. 2
    a room equipped for preparing meals wordnet
  3. 3
    Cuisine; style of cooking. broadly

    "I had been trained with the rigidity and discipline of the French kitchen, and now I was embracing American informality."

  4. 4
    The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
  5. 5
    The percussion section of an orchestra.

    "For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience."

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  1. 6
    A utensil for roasting meat. dated

    "There are two modes of roasting: One is to use a tin kitchen before an open fire, and the other, and more common way, is to use a hot oven."

  2. 7
    A domesticated or uneducated form of a language. attributive

    "Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough."

  3. 8
    A public gaming room in a casino. slang

    "Having done what was required to gain admittance to the "kitchen," as the public rooms are termed, as well as to the more exclusive "Salle Privée" […]"

  4. 9
    Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment. obsolete

    "“They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as I gave his Royal Highness in this very house; bating the lemon juice, for at that time we were glad to get the meat and never fashed for kitchen. Indeed, there were mair dragoons than lemons in my country in the year forty-six.”"

  5. 10
    The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.
Verb
  1. 1
    To do kitchen work; to prepare food.

    "A dress scarcely suited to woodland kitchening was defended by an apron borrowed from the maid."

  2. 2
    To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.

    "I have found it so, for whenever I saw the meal and potatoes running low, I spared them, and kitchened them all I could, and never was run out of them till the new came in."

  3. 3
    To embellish; to dress up. broadly

    "His Maker has not so endowed him as to lay him under the necessity of kitchening, so to speak, a slender share of talent, and, by rigid economy, make it go as far as possible."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, 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).

Etymology 2

From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, 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).

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