/ʃef/
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Translation
A cook who runs the kitchen in a restaurant and decides what food is made.
Word origin
From French chef, meaning head or chief, short for chef de cuisine, the head of the kitchen. From Latin caput, a head.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- chef
- English cognates
- chief, captain
Grammar
Gender
Pluralchefs
Examples
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A chef works in a restaurant kitchen.
trained .
Being a chef is a job you learn.
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"Chefs" is the plural of "chef".
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