Word: kitchen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 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). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n/, /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/, /ˈkit͡ʃin/ 1. A room or area for preparing food. Example: We cook in the kitchen. Example: Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe. 2. Cuisine; style of cooking. Labels: broadly Example: I had been trained with the rigidity and discipline of the French kitchen, and now I was embracing American informality. Example: My palate passionately lies in the savory kitchen with its salty fats and infernal flavors of chilies and spices. 3. The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look. 4. The percussion section of an orchestra. Example: For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience. 5. A utensil for roasting meat. Labels: dated Example: There are two modes of roasting: One is to use a tin kitchen before an open fire, and the other, and more common way, is to use a hot oven. 6. A domesticated or uneducated form of a language. Labels: attributive Example: Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough. 7. A public gaming room in a casino. Labels: slang Example: Having done what was required to gain admittance to the "kitchen," as the public rooms are termed, as well as to the more exclusive "Salle Privée" […] Example: But on this June evening when Bond walked through the 'kitchen' into the salle privée, it was with a sensation of confidence and cheerful anticipation that he changed a million francs into plaques of fifty mille and took a seat […] 8. Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment. Labels: obsolete Example: “They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as I gave his Royal Highness in this very house; bating the lemon juice, for at that time we were glad to get the meat and never fashed for kitchen. Indeed, there were mair dragoons than lemons in my country in the year forty-six.” Example: Snouk but and snouk ben, / I find the smell of an earthly man; / Be he living, or be he dead, / His heart shall be kitchen to my bread. 9. The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.