Kilo Lingo

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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This word is part of lesson 10.