kitchen
noun /ˈkɪtʃɪn/
/ˈkɪtʃɪn/
Idioms - a room in which meals are cooked or prepared
enlarge image- We ate at the kitchen table.
- the kitchen floor/window/door
- a stainless steel kitchen sink
- He stabbed her with a kitchen knife.
- (especially British English) The house has a fully fitted kitchen with custom-built units.
Extra Examplessee also soup kitchenTopics Houses and homesa1, Cooking and eatinga1- I sat at the kitchen island eating a bowl of cereal.
- We handed our trays through the kitchen hatch as we left.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
- spotless
- modern
- …
- area
- door
- floor
- …
- in a/the kitchen
Word OriginOld English cycene, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch keuken and German Küche, based on Latin coquere ‘to cook’.
Idioms
everything but the kitchen sink
- (informal, humorous) a very large number of things, probably more than is necessary
- We seem to take everything but the kitchen sink when we go camping.
if you can’t stand the heat (get out of the kitchen)
- (informal) used to tell somebody to stop trying to do something if they find it too difficult, especially in order to suggest that they are less able than other people