Kitchen

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kitchen \Kitch"en\ (k[i^]ch"[e^]n), n. [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}.]
     1. A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house,
        restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.


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              Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              A fat kitchen makes a lean will.      --Franklin.
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     2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.
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     3. The staff that works in a kitchen.
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     {Kitchen garden}. See under {Garden}.
  
     {Kitchen lee}, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] "A brazen tub of
        kitchen lee." --Ford.
  
     {Kitchen stuff}, fat collected from pots and pans. --Donne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kitchen \Kitch"en\, v. t.
     To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the
     kitchen. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  kitchen
       n : a room equipped for preparing meals

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "kitchen":
     automat, bakehouse, bakery, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette,
     caboose, cafe, cafeteria, camboose, canteen, cantina, chophouse,
     chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, cookery,
     cookhouse, cooking, cookroom, cookshack, cookshop, cuisine,
     culinary, diner, dining hall, dining room, dog wagon, drive-in,
     drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, galley,
     grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery,
     hot-dog stand, kitchenette, larder, lunch counter, lunch wagon,
     luncheonette, lunchroom, mess hall, pantry, pizzeria,
     quick-lunch counter, restaurant, scullery, smoking room,
     smorgasbord, snack bar, storeroom, tavern, tearoom, trattoria