kitchen
/ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The percussion section of an orchestra.
noun
A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
Example Sentences
- "We cook in the kitchen."
- "Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe."
- "I always leave the stuff piled up, piled up in the sink / But you will always find him in the kitchen at parties"
- "I had been trained with the rigidity and discipline of the French kitchen, and now I was embracing American informality."
- "My palate passionately lies in the savory kitchen with its salty fats and infernal flavors of chilies and spices."
- "Kline wrote that, according to various recent surveys, the young Israeli-born generation generally preferred a Mediterranean diet and dishes from the “Oriental” kitchen."
Etymology
From Middle English kichene, kichen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *pekʷ-, kichene, cyċen, *kukinā, cocīna
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/
- British English: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.