/ˈkɪtʃɪn/
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
Examples
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The "kitchen" is the room where you cook food.
flats .
"Kitchens" is the plural, meaning more than one kitchen.
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Here "kitchen" means the room where food is made.
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