kitchener

[kich-uh-ner]

kitch·en·er

[kich-uh-ner]
noun
1.
a person employed in, or in charge of, a kitchen.
2.
an elaborate kitchen stove.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see kitchen, -er1

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Kitch·e·ner

[kich-uh-ner]
noun
1.
Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome), 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
2.
a city in S Ontario, in SE Canada. 131,870.
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Kitchener1 (ˈkɪtʃɪnə)
 
n
an industrial town in SE Canada, in S Ontario: founded in 1806 as Dutch Sand Hills, it was renamed Berlin in 1830 and Kitchener in 1916. Pop: 190 399 (2001)

Kitchener2 (ˈkɪtʃɪnə)
 
n
Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum. 1850--1916, British field marshal. As head of the Egyptian army (1892--98), he expelled the Mahdi from the Sudan (1898), occupying Khartoum; he also commanded British forces (1900--02) in the Boer War and (1902--09) in India. He conducted the mobilization of the British army for World War I as war minister (1914--16); he was drowned on his way to Russia

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