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Kitchen ˈkɪtʃɪn Noun Bre She's Ate Table I

Word kitchen
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˈkɪtʃɪn / NAmE / ˈkɪtʃɪn /
Example
  • she's in the kitchen.
  • we ate at the kitchen table.
  • i sat at the kitchen island eating a bowl of cereal.
  • we handed our trays through the kitchen hatch as we left.
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kitchen

(noun)BrE / ˈkɪtʃɪn / NAmE / ˈkɪtʃɪn /
  1. a room in which meals are cooked or prepared
    • see also soup kitchen
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/soup-kitchen
    • She's in the kitchen.
    • We ate at the kitchen table.
    • 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
    • See related entries: Rooms in a house
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/rooms_in_a_house/kitchen
    • 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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