kitchen

CEFRA1

/ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A room where food is prepared and cooked.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Cuisine; style of cooking.

Examples

  • There is a kitchen garden behind my house.

  • When she returned home from school, she began to help her mother in the kitchen.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈkit͡ʃin/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

  2. A room or area for preparing food.

  3. The percussion section of an orchestra.

More examples

In context

  • We ate at the kitchen table.

  • We cook in the kitchen.

  • I always leave the stuff piled up, piled up in the sink / But you will always find him in the kitchen at parties

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Origin

noun

From Middle English kichene, kichen, 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).