kitchen

kitchen

kit·chen [kitchen kitchens]   [ˈkɪtʃɪn]    [ˈkɪtʃɪn]  noun

a room in which meals are cooked or prepared
• She's in the kitchen.
• We ate at the kitchen table.
see also  soup kitchen
more at if you can't stand the heat (get out of the kitchen) at  heat  _n.
Idiom: everything but the kitchen sink  
Word Origin:
Old English cycene, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch keuken and German Küche, based on Latin coquere ‘to cook’.  
Example Bank:
• I sat at the kitchen island eating a bowl of cereal.

• We handed our trays through the kitchen hatch as we left.