kitchen

kitch‧en S1 W2 /ˈkɪtʃən, ˈkɪtʃɪn/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[Language: Old English; Origin: cycene]
1. the room where you prepare and cook food:
Sam went into the kitchen to make a pot of tea.
She is in the kitchen making a meal.
2. everything but the kitchen sink humorous used when someone has brought too many things with them

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

kitchen / ˈkɪtʃ. ə n / noun [ C ]

A1 a room where food is kept, prepared, and cooked and where the dishes are washed:

We usually eat breakfast in the kitchen.

the kitchen table

a new fitted kitchen (= cupboards that look the same fixed to the walls and floor in the kitchen)

See picture in the kitchen

See picture kitchen equipment and cooking

Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

kitchen

/kɪtʃɪn/
(kitchens)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

A kitchen is a room that is used for cooking and for household jobs such as washing dishes.

N-COUNT

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

kitchen

kitch·en /ˈkɪʧən/ noun, pl -ens [count] : a room in which food is cooked
• She wants a house with a large kitchen.
- often used before another noun
• kitchen counters/cabinets/chairs
• They sat down at the kitchen table.
• When he goes on vacation he takes along everything but the kitchen sink. [=an extremely large number of things]
- see picture on next page; see also soup kitchen