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Kitchen ˈkɪtʃɪn Sink Noun Ate Table Floor/Window/Door Stainless

Word3 kitchen
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /ˈkɪtʃɪn/ /ˈkɪtʃɪn/
Example
  • we ate at the kitchen table.
  • the kitchen floor/window/door
  • a stainless steel kitchen sink
  • he stabbed her with a kitchen knife.
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kitchen

(noun)/ˈkɪtʃɪn/ /ˈkɪtʃɪn/
  1. a room in which meals are cooked or prepared
    • SEE ALSO soup kitchen
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/soup-kitchen
    • We ate at the kitchen table.
    • the kitchen floor/window/door
    • a stainless steel kitchen sink
    • He stabbed her with a kitchen knife.
    • The house has a fully fitted kitchen with custom-built units.

    Extra Examples

    • I sat at the kitchen island eating a bowl of cereal.
    • We handed our trays through the kitchen hatch as we left.
  2. a very large number of things, probably more than is necessary
    • We seem to take everything but the kitchen sink when we go camping.
  3. used to tell somebody to stop trying to do something if they find it too difficult, especially in order to suggest that they are less able than other people
  4. Word Origin

    • Old English cycene, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch keuken and German Küche, based on Latin coquere ‘to cook’.
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