What does kitchen mean?
Definitions for kitchen
ˈkɪtʃ ənkitchen
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word kitchen.
Princeton's WordNet
kitchennoun
a room equipped for preparing meals
GCIDE
Kitchennoun
The staff that works in a kitchen.
Etymology: [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]
Wiktionary
kitchennoun
A room or area for preparing food.
Etymology: From kitchen, kichene, kuchen, from cycen, cycene, from kukinōn, probably a borrowing of cucina, from coquo, from pekʷ-. More at cook.
kitchennoun
An admixture of languages spoken to convey meaning between non-native speakers.
Etymology: From kitchen, kichene, kuchen, from cycen, cycene, from kukinōn, probably a borrowing of cucina, from coquo, from pekʷ-. More at cook.
kitchennoun
The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
Etymology: From kitchen, kichene, kuchen, from cycen, cycene, from kukinōn, probably a borrowing of cucina, from coquo, from pekʷ-. More at cook.
kitchennoun
cuisine
Etymology: From kitchen, kichene, kuchen, from cycen, cycene, from kukinōn, probably a borrowing of cucina, from coquo, from pekʷ-. More at cook.
kitchennoun
The percussion section of an orchestra.
Etymology: From kitchen, kichene, kuchen, from cycen, cycene, from kukinōn, probably a borrowing of cucina, from coquo, from pekʷ-. More at cook.
Webster Dictionary
Kitchennoun
a cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery
Etymology: [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]
Kitchennoun
a utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen
Etymology: [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]
Kitchenverb
to furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen
Etymology: [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]
Freebase
Kitchen
A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation. In the West, a modern residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator and kitchen cabinets arranged according to a modular design. Many households have a microwave oven, a dishwasher and other electric appliances. The main function of a kitchen is cooking or preparing food but it may also be used for dining, food storage, entertaining, dishwashing and laundry.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Kitchen
kich′en, n. a room where food is cooked: a utensil with a stove for dressing food, &c.: anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, &c.—v.t. (Shak.) to regale in the cook-room: to serve as relish to food, to make palatable, to use sparingly, as one would a relish—to make it last.—ns. Kitch′endom, the domain of the kitchen; Kitch′ener, a person employed in the kitchen: a cooking-stove; Kitch′en-fee, the fat which falls from meat in roasting; Kitch′en-gar′den, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for the kitchen; Kitch′en-knave, a scullion; Kitch′en-maid, a maid or servant whose work is in the kitchen; Kitch′en-mid′den (Dan. kjökkenmödding), a prehistoric rubbish-heap in Denmark, the north of Scotland, &c.; Kitch′en-phys′ic, substantial fare (Milt.); Kitch′en-range, a kitchen grate with oven, boiler, &c. attached, for cooking; Kitch′en-stuff, material used in kitchens: kitchen refuse, esp. fat from pots, &c.; Kitch′en-wench, a kitchen-maid. [A.S. cicen; Ger. küche, Fr. cuisine, all from L. coquina—coquĕre, to cook.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
kitchen
The building or room used by soldiers for cooking purposes.
Editors Contribution
kitchen
A type of defined space and room.
The kitchen is the heart of the home and we are always delighted to unite and be there as a family
Submitted by MaryC on February 23, 2020
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Rank popularity for the word 'kitchen' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1317
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'kitchen' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1015
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'kitchen' in Nouns Frequency: #530
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of kitchen in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of kitchen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of kitchen in a Sentence
This is grabbing the kitchen knife out of the drawer in a fit of anger and stabbing her 42 times.
I got through the kitchen and a tree fell on the house, and we made it downstairs just in time.
So we had this bizarre, bizarre idea, why nottake what we already have and turn it into the ‘Simpsons’ kitchen?
I bought it five days after it was listed, it was everything I wanted in a home: enormous windows in all directions, large scaled rooms and an outside deck outside the kitchen for gardening and grilling. I can see the trees turning each season. It’s a private home within a mansion.
Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would.
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- kombuisAfrikaans
- مَطْبَخ, مطبخArabic
- mətbəxAzerbaijani
- ку́хняBelarusian
- ку́хняBulgarian
- cuinaCatalan, Valencian
- kuchyněCzech
- ceginWelsh
- køkkenDanish
- KücheGerman
- dzodoƒeEwe
- κουζίνα, μαγειρείοGreek
- kuirejoEsperanto
- cocinaSpanish
- köökEstonian
- sukaldeBasque
- آشپزخانه, اشپزخانهPersian
- keittiöFinnish
- vale ni kuroFijian
- cuisineFrench
- cistinIrish
- cidsinScottish Gaelic
- cociñaGalician
- madafaa, kicìnHausa
- מטבחHebrew
- रसोईघरHindi
- kizin, lakizinHaitian Creole
- konyhaHungarian
- խոհանոցArmenian
- cocinaInterlingua
- dapurIndonesian
- koqueyoIdo
- eldhúsIcelandic
- cucinaItalian
- מטבחHebrew
- キッチン, 台所, 厨房Japanese
- სამზარეულოGeorgian
- kikukuKongo
- ас үй, ас бөлмесіKazakh
- igaffikKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- ಅಡಿಗೆKannada
- 주방, 부엌Korean
- coquina, culinaLatin
- virtuveLithuanian
- virtuveLatvian
- hereumuMāori
- ку́јнаMacedonian
- галын эрээMongolian
- dapurMalay
- ewak in kukNauru
- kjøkkenNorwegian
- keuken, keuken-Dutch
- kjøkken, kjøkenNorwegian Nynorsk
- KjøkkenetNorwegian
- chʼiyáán álʼį́, chʼiyáán álʼíní góneʼNavajo, Navaho
- cosinaOccitan
- kuchniaPolish
- cozinhaPortuguese
- wayk'una wasiQuechua
- bucătărieRomanian
- ку́хня, кухняRussian
- igikoniKinyarwanda
- coghina, cocina, cuchina, cochina, coginaSardinian
- gievkkanNorthern Sami
- kuhinja, кухињаSerbo-Croatian
- kuchyňaSlovak
- kuhinjaSlovene
- umukukaSamoan
- kuzhinëAlbanian
- kitjhineSouthern Sotho
- kökSwedish
- jiko, jikoniSwahili
- சமையலறைTamil
- వంటిల్లు, వంటగదిTelugu
- ошхона, ошпазхонаTajik
- ครัว, ห้องครัวThai
- kuhnyaTurkmen
- lutuan, kusinaTagalog
- mutfakTurkish
- ку́хняUkrainian
- باورچی خانےUrdu
- oshxonaUzbek
- nhà bếpVietnamese
- kvisinöpVolapük
- coujheneWalloon
- קיךYiddish
- 廚房Chinese
- khishi, ikhishiZulu
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