kitchen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
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).
Inflected forms:
form: kitchens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kitchin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: kitchens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kitchening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kitchened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kitchened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kitchin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A room or area for preparing food.
pos: noun
examples: We cook in the kitchen.
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.
I always leave the stuff piled up, piled up in the sink / But you will always find him in the kitchen at parties
gloss: Cuisine; style of cooking.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I had been trained with the rigidity and discipline of the French kitchen, and now I was embracing American informality.
My palate passionately lies in the savory kitchen with its salty fats and infernal flavors of chilies and spices.
Kline wrote that, according to various recent surveys, the young Israeli-born generation generally preferred a Mediterranean diet and dishes from the “Oriental” kitchen.
Named for the La Merced monastery, which was built in 1594 and on whose grounds the market is now located, it is just east of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza and is a must-visit for anyone wanting to experience the many delectable specialties of the Mexican kitchen.
gloss: The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
pos: noun
gloss: The percussion section of an orchestra.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A utensil for roasting meat.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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.
gloss: A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.
gloss: A public gaming room in a casino.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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" […]
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 […]
gloss: Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: “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.”
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.
gloss: The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.
pos: noun
gloss: To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
pos: verb
examples: A dress scarcely suited to woodland kitchening was defended by an apron borrowed from the maid.
"...May I ? " added the speaker, and forthwith took his answer from his master's smile ; "may I respectfully see what the old one has kitchened for you when I was not there ? "
Instinctively they moved toward community canning, community baking, community kitchening on the grand scale to release energy for other war exigencies.
From somewhere through the series of connecting rooms she smelled food, the stabbing odor of onions cooking, a distantly familiar spice, heard the clatter of women kitchening.
gloss: To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
pos: verb
examples: I have found it so, for whenever I saw the meal and potatoes running low, I spared them, and kitchened them all I could, and never was run out of them till the new came in.
I "kitchened" my loaf, as they say in Scotland, with a pennyworth of butter, and occasionally with lettuce or a few radishes in their season ; and the beverage with which I regaled myself, after my meals, was a glass of water from the nearest pump.
The green hill slopes are dotted over with sheep and lambs nibbling away at their morning meal, kitchened with blabs of sparkling dew, and higher up the mountain side we hear the " cootie moorcock's coothy craw."
This was seasoned with salt and sometimes kitchened with butter.
gloss: To embellish; to dress up.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: His Maker has not so endowed him as to lay him under the necessity of kitchening, so to speak, a slender share of talent, and, by rigid economy, make it go as far as possible.
But as in his novels and other work there is a 'kitchening' of the material, a tentativeness.
Derived words: back kitchen
child of the kitchen
cloud kitchen
dark kitchen
dirty kitchen
everything and the kitchen sink
everything but the kitchen sink
everything including the kitchen sink
field kitchen
fork found in kitchen
Frankfurt kitchen
galley kitchen
ghost kitchen
hot bread kitchen
if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen
invisible kitchen
kitchenable
kitchenalia
kitchenary
kitchen bitch
kitchen bouquet
kitchen boy
kitchen-boy
kitchen brigade
kitchen cabinet
kitchen cake
kitchendom
kitchen drawer
kitchen dresser
kitchener
kitchenet
kitchenette
kitchen-fee
kitchenful
kitchen-garden
kitchen garden
kitchenhand
kitchen hood
kitchening
kitchen island
kitchen knife
kitchenless
kitchenlike
kitchenmaid
kitchenman
kitchenness
kitchen paper
kitchen pass
kitchen police
kitchen roll
kitchenry
kitchen salt
kitchenscape
kitchen sign
kitchen sink
kitchen sink drama
kitchen-sinkery
kitchen sink realism
kitchen sink regression
kitchen sinky
kitchen-sinky
kitchen stuff
kitchen supper
kitchen table
kitchen table issue
kitchen table polyamory
kitchen-table software
kitchen table software
kitchen tea
kitchen timer
kitchen towel
kitchen tunk
kitchen turner
kitchen unit
kitchen utensil
kitchenward
kitchenwards
kitchenware
kitchen witch
kitcheny
microkitchen
minikitchen
morning kitchen
mud kitchen
nonkitchen
open-plan kitchen
outkitchen
piss-kitchen
Shaker kitchen
shaker kitchen
soup kitchen
summer kitchen
tea kitchen
thieves' kitchen
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: амаҵурҭа
roman: amacʼurta
lang: Afrikaans
word: kombuis
lang: Aklanon
word: kusina
lang: Albanian
word: kuzhinë
lang: Southern Altai
word: аш-курсак
roman: aš-kursak
lang: Southern Altai
word: кухня
roman: kuhnya
lang: Arabic
word: مَطْبَخ
roman: maṭbaḵ
lang: Arabic
word: مطبخ
roman: maṭbaḵ
lang: Arabic
word: مطبخ
roman: maṭbaḵ
lang: Arabic
word: مُرَكَّب
roman: murakkab
lang: Arabic
word: كوزينة
roman: kuzina
lang: Arabic
word: كشينة
roman: kšina
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܒܹܝܬ ܒܘܼܫܵܠܵܐ
roman: bēt bušālā
lang: Armenian
word: խոհանոց
roman: xohanocʻ
lang: Assamese
word: পাকঘৰ
roman: pakghor
lang: Assamese
word: ৰান্ধনিঘৰ
roman: randhonighor
lang: Assamese
word: আখল
roman: akhol
lang: Asturian
word: cocina
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mətbəx
lang: Bashkir
word: аласыҡ
roman: alasıq
lang: Basque
word: sukalde
lang: Belarusian
word: ку́хня
roman: kúxnja
lang: Bengali
word: রান্নাঘর
roman: rannaghor
lang: Bengali
word: পাকঘর
roman: pakoghor
lang: Bhojpuri
word: रसोईघर
roman: rasōīghar
lang: Central Bikol
word: kusina
lang: Bole
word: kicin
lang: Breton
word: kegin
lang: Bulgarian
word: ку́хня
roman: kúhnja
lang: Burmese
word: စားဖိုဆောင်
roman: ca:hpuihcaung
lang: Burmese
word: မီးဖိုချောင်
roman: mi:hpuihkyaung
lang: Catalan
word: cuina
lang: Chechen
word: кухни
roman: kuxni
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏓᏍᏓᏴᏗ
roman: adasdayvdi
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 廚房 /厨房
lang: Chinese
word: чўфон
roman: čwfon
lang: Chinese
word: хуәфон
roman: huəfon
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 廚房 /厨房
roman: chúfáng
lang: Choctaw
word: aboha ahoponi
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: paya
lang: Coptic
word: ⲙⲁⲛⲥⲁϩϯ
roman: mansahti
lang: Czech
word: kuchyně
lang: Dalmatian
word: cočaina
lang: Danish
word: køkken
lang: Dutch
word: keuken
lang: Emilian
word: cuséna
lang: Esperanto
word: kuirejo
lang: Estonian
word: köök
lang: Ewe
word: dzodoƒe
lang: Faroese
word: køkur
lang: Fijian
word: vale ni kuro
lang: Finnish
word: keittiö
lang: Finnish
word: kyökki
lang: French
word: cuisine
lang: North Frisian
word: köögen
lang: Friulian
word: cusine
lang: Gagauz
word: kufnä
lang: Galician
word: cociña
lang: Georgian
word: სამზარეულო
roman: samzareulo
lang: German
word: Küche
lang: German
word: Chuchi
lang: Old High German
word: chuhhina
lang: Gilbertese
word: te ru ni kuka
lang: Greek
word: κουζίνα
roman: kouzína
lang: Greek
word: μαγειρείο
roman: mageireío
lang: Ancient Greek
word: μαγειρεῖον
roman: mageireîon
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἰπνός
roman: ipnós
lang: Greenlandic
word: igaffik
lang: Gujarati
word: રસોડું
roman: rasoḍũ
lang: Gujarati
word: પાકશાળા
roman: pākśāḷā
lang: Gujarati
word: રસોઈઘર
roman: rasoīghar
lang: Gujarati
word: રાંધણિયું
roman: rā̃dhṇiyũ
lang: Gujarati
word: ભોજનશાળા
roman: bhojanśāḷā
lang: Gujarati
word: બબરચીખાનું
roman: babarcīkhānũ
lang: Gujarati
word: ભઠિયારખાનું
roman: bhaṭhiyārkhānũ
lang: Gujarati
word: મતબખ
roman: matbakh
lang: Gujarati
word: કિચન
roman: kican
lang: Haitian Creole
word: lakizin
lang: Haitian Creole
word: kizin
lang: Hausa
word: madafaa
lang: Hausa
word: kicin
lang: Hawaiian
word: lumi kuke
lang: Hebrew
word: מִטְבָּח
roman: mitbákh
lang: Hindi
word: रसोईघर
roman: rasoīghar
lang: Hindi
word: रसोई
roman: rasoī
lang: Hungarian
word: konyha
lang: Hunsrik
word: Kich
lang: Icelandic
word: eldhús
lang: Ido
word: koqueyo
lang: Indonesian
word: dapur
lang: Interlingua
word: cocina
lang: Irish
word: cistin
lang: Italian
word: cucina
lang: Japanese
word: 台所
roman: daidokoro
lang: Japanese
word: 厨房
roman: chūbō
lang: Japanese
word: キッチン
roman: kitchin
lang: Japanese
word: キチン
roman: kichin
lang: Japanese
word: 勝手
roman: katte
lang: Javanese
word: pawon
lang: Kazakh
word: ас үй
roman: as üi
lang: Kazakh
word: ас бөлмесі
roman: as bölmesı
lang: Kazakh
word: асүй
roman: asüi
lang: Khmer
word: ផ្ទះបាយ
roman: phtĕəh baay
lang: Khmer
word: ជើងក្រាន
roman: cəəng kraan
lang: Khoekhoe
word: ǁhaos
lang: Kituba
word: kikuku
lang: Kongo
word: kikuku
lang: Konkani
word: वासरि
roman: vāsari
lang: Korean
word: 부엌
roman: bueok
lang: Korean
word: 주방
roman: jubang
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: aşxane
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: metbex
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кухня
roman: kuhnya
lang: Kyrgyz
word: ашкана
roman: aşkana
lang: Ladino
word: kozina
lang: Ladino
word: kuzina
lang: Ladino
word: mupak
lang: Lao
word: ເຮືອນຄົວ
roman: hư̄an khūa
lang: Latin
word: coquīna
lang: Latin
word: culīna
lang: Latvian
word: virtuve
lang: Lingala
word: kuku
lang: Lithuanian
word: virtuvė
lang: Livonian
word: kēk
lang: Lombard
word: cusinna
lang: Lombard
word: cüsìna
lang: Low German
word: Kiücke
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Kichen
lang: Macedonian
word: кујна
roman: kujna
lang: Malay
word: dapur
lang: Brunei Malay
word: dapur
lang: Malayalam
word: അടുക്കള
roman: aṭukkaḷa
lang: Māori
word: hereumu
lang: Middle English
word: kichene
lang: Mongolian
word: галын өрөө
roman: galyn öröö
lang: Nauruan
word: ewak in kuk
lang: Navajo
word: chʼiyáán álʼį́įgi
lang: Navajo
word: chʼiyáán álʼíní góneʼ
lang: Nheengatu
word: memuisawa
lang: Norman
word: tchuîsinne
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kjøkken
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kjøken
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kjøkken
lang: Occitan
word: cosina
lang: Odia
word: ରନ୍ଧାଘର
roman: randhāghara
lang: Ojibwe
word: jiibaakwewigamig
lang: Old English
word: cyċene
lang: Papiamentu
word: kushina
lang: Pashto
word: جلنانۍ
roman: jalnanay
lang: Pashto
word: اشپزخانه
roman: ašpazxāná
lang: Pashto
word: آشپزخانه
roman: āšpazxāná
lang: Iranian Persian
word: آشْپَزْخَانِه
roman: âšpazxâne
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مَطْبَخ
roman: matbax
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Kjäakj
lang: Polish
word: kuchnia
lang: Portuguese
word: cozinha
lang: Quechua
word: wayk'una wasi
lang: Romanian
word: bucătărie
lang: Romansh
word: cuschina
lang: Russian
word: ку́хня
roman: kúxnja
lang: Kinyarwanda
word: igikoni
lang: Northern Sami
word: gievkkan
lang: Southern Sami
word: tjööke
lang: Southern Sami
word: tjöövke
lang: Samoan
word: umukuka
lang: Sanskrit
word: रसवती
roman: rasavatī
lang: Sardinian
word: cochina
lang: Sardinian
word: cocina
lang: Sardinian
word: coghina
lang: Sardinian
word: cogina
lang: Sardinian
word: cuchina
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cidsin
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ку̏хиња
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kȕhinja
lang: Sherpa
word: དབ་སང
lang: Sicilian
word: cucina
lang: Slovak
word: kuchyňa
lang: Slovene
word: kuhinja
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: kuchnja
lang: Sotho
word: kitjhine
lang: Spanish
word: cocina
lang: Swahili
word: jiko
lang: Swahili
word: jikoni
lang: Swedish
word: kök
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠙꠣꠇꠊꠞ
roman: fakgor
lang: Tagalog
word: kusina
lang: Tagalog
word: lutuan
lang: Tagalog
word: silid-lutuan
lang: Tajik
word: ошхона
roman: ošxona
lang: Tajik
word: ошпазхона
roman: ošpazxona
lang: Tarifit
word: tiɣarɣart
lang: Tatar
word: ашханә
roman: aşxanä
lang: Telugu
word: వంటగది
roman: vaṇṭagadi
lang: Telugu
word: వంటిల్లు
roman: vaṇṭillu
lang: Tetela
word: kuku
lang: Tetum
word: dapur
lang: Thai
word: ครัว
roman: kruua
lang: Tibetan
word: བཀད་ས
roman: bkad sa
lang: Tibetan
word: ཐབ་ཀ
roman: thab ka
lang: Tibetan
word: ཐབ་ཚང
roman: thab tshang
lang: Tok Pisin
word: haus kuk
lang: Tokelauan
word: umu
lang: Tokelauan
word: umukuka
lang: Tongan
word: peito
lang: Turkish
word: mutfak
lang: Turkish
word: kan
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آشخانه
roman: aşhâne
lang: Turkmen
word: kuhnya
lang: Turkmen
word: aşhana
lang: Ukrainian
word: ку́хня
roman: kúxnja
lang: Urdu
word: باوَرْچی خانَہ
roman: bāvarcī xāna
lang: Urdu
word: مَطْبَخ
roman: matbax
lang: Urdu
word: مَطْبَخ خانَہ
roman: matbax xāna
lang: Urdu
word: رَسوئی
roman: rasoī
lang: Urdu
word: رَسوئی خانَہ
roman: rasoī xāna
lang: Urdu
word: آش پَز خانَہ
roman: āś paz xāna
lang: Uyghur
word: ئاشخانا
roman: ashxana
lang: Uzbek
word: oshxona
lang: Uzbek
word: kuxnya
lang: Venetan
word: cusina
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhà bếp
lang: Vietnamese
word: bếp
lang: Volapük
word: kvisinöp
lang: Walloon
word: coujhene
lang: Welsh
word: cegin
lang: Wolof
word: waañ
lang: Yakut
word: куукуна
roman: kuukuna
lang: Yao (Africa)
word: chisisa
lang: Yiddish
word: קיך
roman: kikh
lang: Yup'ik
word: kenirvik
lang: Zulu
word: ikhishi