kitchen
/ˈkɪtʃɪn/
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Translation
The room in a house where you cook and prepare food.
Word origin
From Old English cycene, a room for cooking, ultimately from Latin coquere, to cook.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- cycene
- English cognates
- cook
Grammar
Gender
Pluralkitchens
Examples
dinner .
The "kitchen" is the room where you cook food.
flats .
"Kitchens" is the plural, meaning more than one kitchen.
tea.
Here "kitchen" means the room where food is made.
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