kitchen

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

kitchens

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

kitchen

past (v2)

kitchened

past participle (v3)

kitchened

present participle

kitchening

3rd person singular

kitchens

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A room or area for preparing food.

   • We cook in the kitchen.

2. 2.Cuisine; style of cooking.

   • My palate passionately lies in the savory kitchen with its salty fats and infernal flavors of chilies and spices.
   • I had been trained with the rigidity and discipline of the French kitchen, and now I was embracing American informality.
   • Kline wrote that, according to various recent surveys, the young Israeli-born generation generally preferred a Mediterranean diet and dishes from the “Oriental” kitchen.

3. 3.The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

   • I'm drinking water in the kitchen.
   • Tom hasn't cleaned the kitchen yet.
   • Tom helps his mother in the kitchen.

4. 4.The percussion section of an orchestra.

   • I'm drinking water in the kitchen.
   • Tom hasn't cleaned the kitchen yet.
   • Tom helps his mother in the kitchen.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.

   • This was seasoned with salt and sometimes kitchened with butter.
   • I have found it so, for whenever I saw the meal and potatoes running low, I spared them, and kitchened them all I could, and never was run out of them till the new came in.
   • The green hill slopes are dotted over with sheep and lambs nibbling away at their morning meal, kitchened with blabs of sparkling dew, and higher up the mountain side we hear the " cootie moorcock's coothy craw."

2. 2.To embellish; to dress up.

   • But as in his novels and other work there is a 'kitchening' of the material, a tentativeness.
   • His Maker has not so endowed him as to lay him under the necessity of kitchening, so to speak, a slender share of talent, and, by rigid economy, make it go as far as possible.

3. 3.To do kitchen work; to prepare food.

   • A dress scarcely suited to woodland kitchening was defended by an apron borrowed from the maid.
   • Instinctively they moved toward community canning, community baking, community kitchening on the grand scale to release energy for other war exigencies.
   • From somewhere through the series of connecting rooms she smelled food, the stabbing odor of onions cooking, a distantly familiar spice, heard the clatter of women kitchening.

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Everyday conversation

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General reading & writing

Common

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Literature

Common

Word family

• kit