kitchens

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’.