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单词 chez
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Definition of chez in English:

chez

preposition ʃeɪSHā
  • At the home of (used in conscious imitation of French)

    I spent one summer chez Grandma
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All I can say is that it would not happen chez Taylor.
    • The cold streets will glitter under the bright lights and the holiday chez Blair will be rosy, jolly and self-satisfied, blighted only by the possibility that young Euan might overdo it with the sherry.
    • But since this would involve draping myself over couches wearing a toga and sucking grapes it would lack novelty, being all too similar to an ordinary Saturday night chez Lupin.
    • Sunday was mostly spent recovering and then onto a fun evening chez Meg and Luke in honour of the Australian's clock ticking over once more.
    • I was free, but there was a catch, I had to spend one more night chez Jean Marie, and they were to be informed that I was leaving the next day, and it was all my decision.
    • Many were fed to capacity (as is the norm chez Cushing) and many were embarrassed out of their skins too (you know who you are).
    • Radio silence can end now: I managed to successfully move flats on the weekend and am now ensconced chez the gracious Meg and Paul in W14.
    • For that price, I'd rather deconstruct the whole thing, chez Daniel - or chez Mark, for that matter.
    • Not just content with the new things going on chez Lyle, it appears that Jon is also going through a similar set of changes and viewpoint revisions.
    • Indeed, even the experts are reluctant to award the profession too many stress points, suggesting that a lot of what we see chez Ramsay is food cinema.
    • In conversations chez Althouse, we do often start taking books off the shelves and pointing out paragraphs, but that's more of a family thing.
    • Also I will soon need to phone CG again, since I don't know if we're meeting here or chez him, but if it's here, I need to buy food to eat.
    • But more than the well-prepared blue-chip comfort food, the real joy of a dinner chez Puny is watching the man himself perform.
    • Last night, I ventured out into the freezing cold and almost deserted London streets, heading for the hospitality chez Dori and Raf.
    • We're still laughing about that chez Althouse.
    • This is chez Amy, and in her defence, she's rarely around.
    • The account of a Christmas dinner chez Bucks, for example, is brilliantly executed but the agony is drawn out until it's unbearable, until you're made to feel unwelcome.
    • For him, the festival is also a great opportunity to do a bit of corporate entertaining by flying in their European contacts for a day of culture and then a sit-down dinner chez Bruce.
    • I roll up at his apartment at the appointed time and he's not quite ready, so I may be one of the few visitors chez Hitchens to have seen him clothed as he was.
    • Oddly, I was tired all day and uninterested in going; when it turned out I couldn't (plumbing issue chez my friend), I was disappointed.

Origin

Mid 18th century: French, from Old French chiese, from Latin casa 'cottage'.

Rhymes

affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea
 
 

Definition of chez in US English:

chez

prepositionSHā
  • At the home of (used in imitation of French, often humorously)

    I spent one summer chez Grandma
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was free, but there was a catch, I had to spend one more night chez Jean Marie, and they were to be informed that I was leaving the next day, and it was all my decision.
    • The account of a Christmas dinner chez Bucks, for example, is brilliantly executed but the agony is drawn out until it's unbearable, until you're made to feel unwelcome.
    • This is chez Amy, and in her defence, she's rarely around.
    • We're still laughing about that chez Althouse.
    • But more than the well-prepared blue-chip comfort food, the real joy of a dinner chez Puny is watching the man himself perform.
    • But since this would involve draping myself over couches wearing a toga and sucking grapes it would lack novelty, being all too similar to an ordinary Saturday night chez Lupin.
    • Indeed, even the experts are reluctant to award the profession too many stress points, suggesting that a lot of what we see chez Ramsay is food cinema.
    • Not just content with the new things going on chez Lyle, it appears that Jon is also going through a similar set of changes and viewpoint revisions.
    • Many were fed to capacity (as is the norm chez Cushing) and many were embarrassed out of their skins too (you know who you are).
    • Sunday was mostly spent recovering and then onto a fun evening chez Meg and Luke in honour of the Australian's clock ticking over once more.
    • For that price, I'd rather deconstruct the whole thing, chez Daniel - or chez Mark, for that matter.
    • The cold streets will glitter under the bright lights and the holiday chez Blair will be rosy, jolly and self-satisfied, blighted only by the possibility that young Euan might overdo it with the sherry.
    • For him, the festival is also a great opportunity to do a bit of corporate entertaining by flying in their European contacts for a day of culture and then a sit-down dinner chez Bruce.
    • Oddly, I was tired all day and uninterested in going; when it turned out I couldn't (plumbing issue chez my friend), I was disappointed.
    • All I can say is that it would not happen chez Taylor.
    • I roll up at his apartment at the appointed time and he's not quite ready, so I may be one of the few visitors chez Hitchens to have seen him clothed as he was.
    • Last night, I ventured out into the freezing cold and almost deserted London streets, heading for the hospitality chez Dori and Raf.
    • Radio silence can end now: I managed to successfully move flats on the weekend and am now ensconced chez the gracious Meg and Paul in W14.
    • Also I will soon need to phone CG again, since I don't know if we're meeting here or chez him, but if it's here, I need to buy food to eat.
    • In conversations chez Althouse, we do often start taking books off the shelves and pointing out paragraphs, but that's more of a family thing.

Origin

Mid 18th century: French, from Old French chiese, from Latin casa ‘cottage’.

 
 
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