kitchenkitch‧en /ˈkɪtʃɪn/ ●●● S1 W2 noun [countable] 
Sam went into the kitchen to make a pot of tea. She is in the kitchen making a meal.2everything but the kitchen sink humorous used when someone has brought too many things with them
WORD ORIGINkitchen
Origin:
Old English cyceneEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Jay's in the kitchen washing the dishes.
- the kitchen table
WORD SETS
alcove, nounattic, nounback door, nounbasement, nounbasin, nounbath, nounbath, verbbath mat, nounbathroom, nounbathtub, nounbedchamber, nounbedroom, nounblanket, nounblind, nounbottom drawer, nounbox room, nouncabinet, nouncistern, nouncowl, nouncrazy quilt, noundado, noundeadbolt, noundeck, noundinette, noundining room, noundoorbell, noundoorjamb, noundoorknob, noundoorknocker, noundoormat, noundoorpost, noundoorstep, noundoorstop, noundoorway, noundouble glazing, noundownspout, noundownstairs, adverbdrainpipe, noundrapes, noundrawing room, noundressing room, nouneiderdown, nounfamily room, nounfanlight, nounfender, nounfireplace, nounfireside, nounfloor, nounfoyer, nounFrench doors, nounFrench windows, nounfrieze, nounfront door, nounfurnishings, noungable, noungabled, adjectivegarage, noungarret, noungeyser, noungranny flat, nounhatch, nounhatchway, nounhearth, nouninglenook, nounironing board, nounjamb, nounkitchen, nounlarder, nounlattice window, nounlibrary, nounlino, nounlinoleum, nounliving room, nounloft, nounlounge, nounlumber room, nounmaster bedroom, nounmat, nounmorning room, nounornament, nounpalace, nounpane, nounpantry, nounparlour, nounparquet, nounpassage, nounpatio, nounpatio doors, nounpelmet, nounpenthouse, nounpied-à-terre, nounplayroom, nounporch, nounpublic housing, nounquilt, nounradiator, nounranch, nounranch house, nounreception room, nounrecess, nounrecessed, adjectiverecreation room, nounrug, nounrunner, nounself-contained, adjectivesemi, nounsemi-detached, adjectiveshade, nounsill, nounsitting room, nounskylight, nounspare room, nounsplashback, nounsplit-level, adjectivestair, nounstaircase, nounstairway, nounstairwell, nounstorm door, nounstorm window, nounstucco, nounstudy, nounsuite, nounsun lounge, nounsun porch, nounterraced house, nounthreshold, nountied cottage, nountrestle table, nountub, nounundercoat, noununderfelt, noununderlay, noununit, nounutility room, nounveranda, nounvilla, nounwainscot, nounwalk-up, nounwall, nounwallpaper, nounwallpaper, verbwall-to-wall, adjectivewarming pan, nounwashroom, nounwastebasket, nounwet bar, nounwhitewash, nounwhitewash, verbwoodwork, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Cover the chicken with silver foil and bake. She dried her hands on the kitchen towel. fitted kitchen units British English We decided to paint the bathroom walls blue.
· The kitchen area is rather small.
· Harry glanced at the kitchen clock and saw that he was late.
· The kitchen cupboards were empty.
· The kitchen door opened and Jake walked in.
(=in a piece of kitchen furniture)· There's some string in that kitchen drawer.
· I’ve still got to clean the bathroom floor.
Cover the chicken with silver foil and bake. British English (=where you grow fruit and vegetables)· The kitchen garden supplies vegetables to the manor house.
(=a long knife used for cutting vegetables etc)· Every chef has his own set of kitchen knives.
American English
· They were chatting around the kitchen table.
· The water coming out of the kitchen tap had an odd smell.
She dried her hands on the kitchen towel. fitted kitchen units British English We decided to paint the bathroom walls blue.· She had left the kitchen window open.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Lounge / dining / kitchen areas with seating which converts to a double or two single beds are required.· He repaired to his kitchen area, flagrantly disregarding the woman who was being sick three rows behind the two men.· The attendant, now adding a sulk to his sullenness, had shuffled off to the kitchen area.· There was no sign of any of his colleagues, but the door to the kitchen area was sealed and padlocked.· This suited Zephyr; she immediately checked out the kitchen area.· The kitchen area accords with the latest food hygiene regulations.· The kitchen area also opened off the room, without a door.
· Being all in one, the Concept slides neatly between kitchen cabinets without gaps, adjusting to fit flush with the worktop.· If you have wall space that needs filling, look in your kitchen cabinets first before running out to buy something.· With adjustable height skid feet and flush fitting sides, the Phase 2 fits easily into your kitchen cabinets.· There is no kitchen table, no kitchen cabinets.· Think of the man who has to hang a kitchen cabinet in a frame house.· One family was loading kitchen cabinets, a sink, a refrigerator, a sofa and a radiator on to a large truck.· Clean refrigerator and kitchen cabinet fronts.· This raises questions / concerns about installing new kitchen cabinets that will have their own back resting against the outside wall.
· She was kneeling on a kitchen chair, her long hair trailing in the margarine, when she heard the steps.· It could happen right now, sitting on a white kitchen chair in a cool breeze and drinking iced tea.· Maggie sat huddled on a kitchen chair and Phoebe held her hand.· There was an available seat, a metal kitchen chair with its back snapped off.· There was an ironing-board, two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room.· Meir Ahronson led me into his bedroom, sat down on the edge of the bed, and indicated a kitchen chair.· Dilwyn Bowles's hernia appeared last September after he fell over a kitchen chair.· Minna was sitting on a kitchen chair near the window.
· She leaned against the kitchen counter.· Ellie moved gingerly between the table and the kitchen counter, buttering toast and pouring cups of tea.· In London, my kitchen counter is as cluttered as anybody's.· Wipe kitchen counters after each meal.· She leaves like four bucks on the kitchen counter - though it's since gone down to three-fifty.· He had his guest sit at the kitchen counter.· A second, designed to be installed above a kitchen counter, would be a television and electronic recipe holder.· Before opening it, he grudgingly used the microwave to heat a cup of cocoa, then sat at the kitchen counter.
· He had gone out through the kitchen door.· Cantor closed the kitchen door behind him.· Frankie stared through the banisters, willing the kitchen door to open.· Susan took off her traveling dress and washed in the basin by the kitchen door.· For, as his master opened the kitchen door, there, in eager anticipation, stood Azor.· On the other side of the kitchen door, a cupboard squeaked open.· He edged his way to the kitchen door and could see a black profile through the frosted glass.· He reached the kitchen door just as a bright rectangle of light slowly spread across the upstairs wall.
· Her daughters would giggle over the odd doodles they found in kitchen drawers or on the back shelf of the downstairs toilet.· He opened it, after sorting through the kitchen drawers for a corkscrew with an assurance that annoyed Fabio.· Recently, I found a roll of undeveloped film in a kitchen drawer.· It is somewhere in the kitchen drawer with the 60-watt bulbs.· I then removed every knife and sharp instrument from the kitchen drawer.· He was about to call Bodie when he noticed a small white writing pad in the opened kitchen drawer.
· I bet her kitchen floor is surgically sterile.· He did a load of laundry, ran a mop across the kitchen floor.· She remembered the great flagged kitchen floor at the Bassetts' house and her heart warmed.· Evidently, some one has been living beneath my kitchen floor, taking comfort in the heat of my boiler.· The steamy yellow gruel in the bucket splashed out on to the kitchen floor.· Wash and, if necessary, wax kitchen floor.· Mrs Palichuk planted her stockinged feet squarely on the white and beige tiles of the kitchen floor, and looked around her.· Officers returned Saturday and noticed that the kitchen floor had been recently scrubbed.
· At the risk of sounding smug, my ornamental kitchen garden gave me no such problems.· At the end of the kitchen garden, by the stile to the open fields, he had looked back.· The food is freshly cooked using produce from the kitchen garden and local produce as much as possible.· He almost laughs when he sees what it really is - a small lawn, with a rockery and kitchen garden beyond.· He was a long-haired tabby she had found in the kitchen garden, old and nearly dead from starvation.· I got on with my kitchen garden.· But we don't maintain the kitchen gardens and the greenhouses anymore.· A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park, creating lakes and the kitchen gardens.
· Dara seized a kitchen knife and tried to defend himself, but the thugs overpowered him.· Police found Ronald Frazier, 30, wounded in the neck, apparently stabbed with a kitchen knife.· Rachael had hidden a large kitchen knife in his jeans pocket and smuggled it in unchecked.· After a few minutes he managed to crack open the lock with a kitchen knife.· Still disbelieving its reality, I searched for a kitchen knife.· Detectives hunting Damilola's killers have found a kitchen knife with cloth wrapped around the handle and a broken bottle.· Scrambling, she got to her feet and made a grab at the kitchen knife at the sink.· A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife.
· The scrubbing was the nastiest, she thought despairingly, bad though blacking the grates, particularly the kitchen range, was.· He sat down in the big easy-chair beside the kitchen range, took me on his knee and read me a story.· The company cooker, a kitchen range on wheels, was being stoked up.
· The only thing missing is the kitchen sink!· I rinse the cereal bowl and leave it in the kitchen sink for tonight.· She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink.· Clean kitchen sink and wipe range surfaces, including the microwave.· The baths, kitchen sink and children's wash basin have conventionally sized traps and wastes.· Karen was at the kitchen sink.· What comes next, the kitchen sink?
· The evening programme is aimed at teenagers and features a live band and soup kitchen.· Or, George Bush visiting a soup kitchen and maybe Jeane Kirkpatrick at a boxing match.· On every street corner a newspaper billboard proclaimed it, in every soup kitchen queue people discussed it.· We could not have created this soup kitchen without busting the unions.· It's like a queue for a soup kitchen.· San Francisco reported soup kitchens running out of food and food pantries unable to keep up stocks of high-protein items.· Moscow is a city of soup kitchens and strip shows, of Cadillacs and corruption.
· Kitty slouched off again while Charlie got up from the kitchen table carrying the remainder of the pie in his fingers.· She stood him on the kitchen table, where he dripped soapy water on to the plastic tablecloth.· All week-end long, it sat on the kitchen table staring at him like a cold watery eye.· Bleakly, he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin.· He laid her on the kitchen table while he called the doctor.· Mary sat with her elbows on the kitchen table.· We sit at her kitchen table and eat cookies from a box.
· Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles, and prices to fit any budget.· Take, for example, a small company producing fitted kitchen units.· There's a vast range of kitchen units available in a choice of materials.· Can be integrated into kitchen units.· It's also the same height as your kitchen units for a perfect fit.· A cooker and four kitchen units were destroyed, and the remainder of the flat badly smoke logged.· That's when Simon got the idea of making kitchen units, too.· The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive.
· These objects add instant nostalgia when hung on your kitchen wall or placed in a basket on your counter top.· The outside yard was about seven feet in width and bordered by the kitchen wall.· Unfortunately, you can not gain access to your inner clock as easily as the clock on your kitchen wall.· The kitchen walls literally run with water at times!· Flames shot up amidst coils of thick smoke that blackened our kitchen walls and ceiling.· Keep a fire blanket on the kitchen wall in case of emergencies.· With any luck the calendar finds a place on the kitchen wall and serves as a useful reference throughout the year.
· She glanced out of the kitchen window.· At least seven shots were fired into the apartment through a kitchen window.· All the doors were locked and bolted so I climbed out through the kitchen window and dropped into a bed of lavender.· He sat for a long time, staring up at the Klubocks' kitchen window.· Cathie glanced up at the sky through the kitchen window.· Nick tossed three bags of gold through the kitchen window, and the three daughters married Soon after.· Beyond her kitchen window, crocuses sprouted up from the grass, bright as doubloons, orange and heliotrope.· One came through the kitchen window of a nearby house while the family was eating in the dining room.
VERB· Frau Trauffer and her daughters came out of the kitchen wiping their hands on their aprons.· Lizzie came from the kitchen to tell her Jenny had phoned and was arriving a day earlier.· What comes next, the kitchen sink?· Ralph Lauren's Polo aftershave came galloping into the kitchen, followed shortly by a now fully clothed Lee.· One came through the kitchen window of a nearby house while the family was eating in the dining room.· Then, as if drawn by the presence of strangers, another of the household came into the kitchen.· The dinner guest arrived early and came marching into the kitchen to inspect the proceedings, under the guise of offering assistance.
· Martha felt that she was walking on air and when she entered the kitchen, Annie looked up.· It was after ten in the morning and she had just entered the kitchen to replenish her coffee mug.· Anybody entering the kitchen from the garden door would spot her immediately.· Dinner doesn't bode well for the food-loving gentleman entering the kitchen without a decent set of knives.· She entered the kitchen from the back gate closing the door on the small yard with a click of finality.· But when she entered the little kitchen the first thing she saw was the flowers.· She entered the kitchen and took herself over to the knife rack above the Aga.· It was as she put the last plate on the table that the door opened and Carrie Smith entered the kitchen.
· When she went back to the kitchen Penry's tray stood on the counter, the plates satisfactorily empty.· But instead of going to the kitchen she came up the stairs.· If you ask me, she should go back to her kitchen!· Automatically she went to the kitchen.· Phoebe went back to the kitchen, heated up some tinned soup and made tuna fish sandwiches.· When he got home, he went to the kitchen looking for Puny and saw instead an unusual sight in his backyard.· She went off into the kitchen.· When jazz musicians go to a club, the first place we go is the kitchen.
· He walked along the small passage leading to the kitchen, then padded beyond it into the scullery before pressing a light-switch.· When she went through the door that led back into the kitchen, she found that Julius was still there.· They counted to 100, then raced for the door that led into the kitchen.· The fireplace, dating from the castle's foundation in 1625, has been converted into a hatch leading to the kitchen.· In the door leading to the kitchen Pumfrey noticed a girl of ten or so.· With this intention firmly planted in her mind, she headed for the back stairs leading down into the kitchens.· A door connected kitchen with bathroom, with the rear door leading from the kitchen to the carport.
· In the evening, bone-tired, she left the kitchen and went to put a reluctant Anna to bed.· I rinse the cereal bowl and leave it in the kitchen sink for tonight.· She left him in the kitchen examining the espresso coffee machine with wonder, while she went to Patrick's office.· Then he turned and left the kitchen.· He left the kitchen and picked up the hotel cashbox from his office in the foyer.· Spoiled and rotting food was left in the kitchen and on tables.· They left the kitchen window open for Tobermory as usual, but he did not come.· And I longed to leave the kitchen now for the openness of the front compound.
· She stepped over him, going through to the kitchen and opening the booze cupboard.· The kitchen door opened a crack and a servant, her head bound tightly in blue cloth, peeked into the room.· Frankie stared through the banisters, willing the kitchen door to open.· Then he went into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and found some orange juice and a loaf of bread.· The heavy ornate kitchen door swung silently open on well-oiled hinges.· He darted into the kitchen and opened the door next to the stove.· Piggy-wig was in the kitchen, Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge.
· Instead he suggested to Boris that he should return to the kitchen, leaving the final details to him.· Then he returned to the kitchen.· The two awaited her return in a kitchen redolent with the smell of home baking.· He listened for a moment, then returned to the kitchen.· After filling a glass with water, she returned to the kitchen and sat down and slowly sipped the water.· He nodded as she returned to the kitchen.· When she returned to the kitchen, Annie was touched and surprised to see tears in Tamar's eyes.· Mrs Arkaday thanked him, then returned to the kitchen.
· But Tildy ran into the kitchen, and she began to cry.· Then she ran water in the kitchen.· I ran to and fro from the kitchen for some time with saucepans and kettles of boiling water.· I run out of the kitchen.· She drew a deep breath and ran into the kitchen and they turned in their chairs to look at her.· When I returned, I ran into the kitchen, dashing from one set of female legs to another.· The mixture should be thin enough to run through a small kitchen funnel.
· He sat down at the kitchen table and picked up the hacksaw.· Bleakly, he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin.· Then Beatrice and Mike Tonelli and I sit at the kitchen table.· Night after night they sat in the kitchen, adding frills of lace and clusters of tiny artificial pearls.· Afterward I sat in the kitchen with her over a cup of coffee.· When Thomas was contentedly playing with his cars, Ashley sat down at the kitchen table.· Nana and I sat at her kitchen table eating Fannie Mae chocolates and playing gin rummy.
· They were still sitting at the kitchen table.· A family are sitting around their kitchen table, having a conversation about the things in the room.· So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in.· It could happen right now, sitting on a white kitchen chair in a cool breeze and drinking iced tea.· Last night he and I were sitting silently in the kitchen at about midnight, when Heathcliff came home.· Fanshawe won, of course, and two minutes later I found myself sitting in the little kitchen with the fat madam.· The children would be sitting around the kitchen table.· She is sitting at the kitchen table with Fran drinking bourbon for the first time in her life.
· She stood briefly in the kitchen, glaring at Josie.· She stood him on the kitchen table, where he dripped soapy water on to the plastic tablecloth.· As Emily Mahon stood in the kitchen she hoped that Nan would be warm and pleasant to her father this morning.· I stood in the kitchen breathing hard, then felt my way to the ladder.· Piers was standing in the small kitchen, dwarfing it with his presence.· They eat standing up in the kitchen.· Emily sighed as she stood in the shabby kitchen.· I was standing in the kitchen, he didn't see me but I saw him.
· Constance ran round the side of the house, and walking into the kitchen, slammed the door loudly behind her.· She loved watching him walk around the kitchen in his jeans and sweatshirt.· He walked into the brightly-lit kitchen, opened the fridge, took out a bottle of pure water and opened it.· The way she rinsed the breakfast dishes and dried her hands and then walked out of the kitchen without looking at him.· She walked into the kitchen feeling like committing murder, Roman Wyatt's murder.· Karen put the magazine down and walked into the kitchen.· As he was speaking, he began to walk from the kitchen into the sitting room.· He opened the Rabelais to a page and began reading, walking to the kitchen doorway to serenade Alice with the flow.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
1the room where you prepare and cook food: - Aunt Hortense: Babsy Hepworth's bronzes, everything but the kitchen sink.
- Burglars broke in and took everything but the kitchen sink.
- When my parents come to stay with us, they bring everything but the kitchen sink!
- Aunt Hortense: Babsy Hepworth's bronzes, everything but the kitchen sink.
Sam went into the kitchen to make a pot of tea. She is in the kitchen making a meal.2everything but the kitchen sink humorous used when someone has brought too many things with them