How do you use the word "chef" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "chef": We call her a chef. Please tell the chef it was delicious.

Chef Meaning

/ʃɛf/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

nounThe head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

Sentence Examples

We call her a chef.

Please tell the chef it was delicious.

A new book by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver

CEFR Practice Quiz

The kitchen staff quickly obeyed every command from the head ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ prepared a delicious five-course meal for the wedding day.

Word Origin & History

Unadapted borrowing from French chef (from the positions of chef d'office and chef de cuisine), from Old French chief (“head, leader”) (English chief), from Vulgar Latin capus (“head”) (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (possibly related to English cap (“head covering”)). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, and chief through Latin, and head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The cause of the disturbance, it appeared, was the angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment." — 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Which Is Both Quarrelsome and Sentimental”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 266:

"But trying to stop all the nation's meth chefs makes as much sense as building a wall along the Mexican border." — 1998, SPIN, volume 14, number 3, page 100:

"Owsley Stanley, the world's most exacting and prolific LSD chef who supplied the majority of America's West Coast with LSD in the 1960s, claimed he made so much acid not because he wanted to change the world, but rather because it was almost impossible not to make vast quantities of the drug once the synthesis had been embarked upon." — 2013, Mike Power, Drugs 2.0:

"It was Brick who talked on alumni relations with the active chapters and who cheffed at our steak fry (more of that later) and Mrs. Cowles who took over […]" — 1953, The Deke Quarterly, volume 71, number 4, page 32:

"I cheffed part-time at a nice restaurant in town." — 1996, Sonora Review, number 31, page 110:

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