kitchen Meaning, Definition & Usage

Kitch"en noun

Etymology

OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.

Definitions

1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.

   Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden.

   A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin.

2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. Donne.

Kitch"en transitive verb

Definitions

1. To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. Obs. Shak.