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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 ME; see kitchen, -er 1

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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Kitch·e·ner   (kĭch'nər, kĭch'ə-nər)   
A city of southern Ontario, Canada, west-southwest of Toronto. Settled by Mennonites (1806) and by Germans who named it Berlin in 1825, it was renamed in honor of Lord Kitchener in 1916. Population: 205,000.
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert. First Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome. 1850-1916.  
British soldier and colonial administrator who led Egyptian troops in the retaking of the Sudan (1898), brought the Boer War (1899-1902) to a conclusion, and served as secretary for war (1914-1916) during World War I.
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