kitchen

[ kich-uhn ]

noun

1. a room or place equipped for cooking:

   The apartment has a full kitchen with an oven and dishwasher.

2. the staff involved in food preparation in a restaurant or eatery:

   He called the kitchen to make sure they could accommodate his allergies.

3. culinary department; cuisine:

   This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen.

4. the equipment and fixtures needed to make a room suitable for cooking:

   We bought a kitchen, but it still needs to be installed.

5. 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

1. 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.

2. 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.

kitchen

/ ˈkɪtʃɪn /

noun

1. 1. a room or part of a building equipped for preparing and cooking food
   2. ( as modifier )

      a kitchen table

Other Words From

• kitch·en·less adjective
• kitch·en·y adjective
• out·kitch·en noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of kitchen¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English kichene, Old English cycene ≪ Latin coquīna, equivalent to coqu(ere) “to cook” + -īna -ine ¹; cuisine

Word History and Origins

Origin of kitchen¹

Old English cycene, ultimately from Late Latin coquīna, from Latin coquere to cook ; see kiln

Idioms and Phrases

see everything but the kitchen sink ; if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen .

Example Sentences

She remembers sitting at the kitchen table doing her homework when her mom fell and Rigelhaupt didn’t respond the way her mom thought she should.

From Los Angeles Times

Except it wasn’t a terrifying beast — it was a person in a bear costume using a kitchen tool designed to shred meat, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times

The prosecution say he then armed himself with two knives, one large kitchen knife, and another flick knife, and went up two flights of stairs to Mr Bush’s bedroom, where an attack began.

From BBC

Embracing a food-waste-fighting fungus on kitchen tables and restaurant plates across the world is not the future of food, said Hill-Maini, but the present.

From Salon

“Every day it’s the same struggle. I go back and forth to the soup kitchen.”

From BBC

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