kitchen

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A room where meals are prepared and cooked.

   My kitchen has a dishwasher and a refrigerator.

Common collocations

• modern kitchen Adjective + noun
• clean the kitchen Verb + noun
• open kitchen Adjective + noun
• fitted kitchen Adjective + noun
• fit a kitchen Verb + noun
• renovate the kitchen Verb + 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).

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