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kitch⋅en
[kich-uh
n] 
–noun
| 1. | a room or place equipped for cooking. |
| 2. | culinary department; cuisine: This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen. |
| 3. | the staff or equipment of a kitchen. |
–adjective
| 4. | of, pertaining to, or designed for use in a kitchen: kitchen window; kitchen curtains. |
| 5. | employed in or assigned to a kitchen: kitchen help. |
| 6. | of or resembling a pidginized language, esp. one used for communication between employers and servants or other employees who do not speak the same language. |
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| kitch·en (kĭch'ən) n.
[Middle English kichene, from Old English cycene, probably from Vulgar Latin *cocīna, from Late Latin coquīna, from feminine of Latin coquīnus, of cooking, from coquus, cook, from coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.] |
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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 cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. --Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. --Franklin. 2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. 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.Kitchen
Kitch"en\, v. t. To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Language Translation for : Kitchen
Spanish:
cocina,
German:
die Küche; Küchen-,
Japanese:
台所
kitchen
O.E. cycene, from W.Gmc. *kocina (cf. M.Du. cökene, O.H.G. chuhhina, Ger. Küche, Dan. kjøkken), probably borrowed from V.L. *cocina (cf. Fr. cuisine, Sp. cocina), variant of L. coquina "kitchen," from fem. of coquinus "of cooks," from coquus "cook," from coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)). Kitchen cabinet "informal but powerful set of advisors" is Amer.Eng. slang, 1832, originally in ref. to administration of President Andrew Jackson. Kitchen midden (1863) in archaeology translates Dan. kjøkken mødding. The New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen is first attested 1894. Kitchenette is from 1910, Amer.Eng. Phrase everything but the kitchen sink is from World War II armed forces slang, in ref. to intense bombardment.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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