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.

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See kitchen in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. a room or place or the equipment for the preparation and cooking of food
  2. 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
  1. A room or an area equipped for preparing and cooking food.
  2. A style of cooking; cuisine: a restaurant with a fine French kitchen.
  3. 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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