kitchen
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
kitchen/ˈkɪtʃɪn/
▶noun
- 1 a room where food is prepared and cooked.
- 2 informal the percussion section of an orchestra.
- 3 [as modifier] (of a language) in an uneducated or domestic form: kitchen Swahili.
– origin OE cycene, of W. Gmc origin, based on L. coquere ‘to cook’.
'kitchen' also found in these Oxford entries:
batterie de cuisine
- caboose
- compost heap
- cookery
- cuisine
- culinary
- dry sink
- fish slice
- galley
- gyp
- hogwash
- housewares
- include
- industry
- kiln
- kitchen cabinet
- kitchener
- kitchenette
- kitchen garden
- kitchen midden
- kitchen paper
- kitchen-sink
- kitchen tea
- kitchenware
- langar
- mandolin
- midden
- mise en place
- palette knife
- pigswill
- potager
- scullery
- scullion
- self-contained
- shell heap
- slop
- soup kitchen
- swill
- tenor
- washer-up
- washing-up
- waste-disposal unit
- worktop
- zester
