kitchen
The definition of kitchen is a room or area a home or building where food is cooked or prepared.
(noun)An example of a kitchen is the room in your home that has a stove, refrigerator and cabinets for storing food.
See kitchen in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a room or place or the equipment for the preparation and cooking of food
- a staff that cooks and serves food
Origin: ME kychene < OE cycene < VL cocina, cucina: see cuisine
See kitchen in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A room or an area equipped for preparing and cooking food.
- A style of cooking; cuisine: a restaurant with a fine French kitchen.
- A staff that prepares, cooks, and serves food.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English kichene
Origin: , from Old English cycene
Origin: , probably from Vulgar Latin *cocīna
Origin: , from Late Latin coquīna
Origin: , from feminine of Latin coquīnus, of cooking
Origin: , from coquus, cook
Origin: , from coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots
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