Other forms: kitchens
A kitchen is the room where meals are cooked. In the kitchen, a new kitchen, the kitchen table.
The kitchen table is the real centre of most British homes, and a great deal of family life happens at it rather than anywhere designed for it. A professional kitchen is organised by station, and the brigade system dividing it is about a hundred and forty years old. Note kitchen sink, kitchenette; everything but the kitchen sink, meaning far too much; and if you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
1nounkitchenThe room where meals are cooked.
“The smell of fresh bread was coming from the kitchen.”
kitchen is a room.
Latin coquina comes from coquere, to cook — the same root as cook, kiln and precocious, which means ripened early. The word arrived in Old English before the Norman conquest.
Proto-Indo-European
*pekʷ- — to cook, become ripe
Latin
cocīna
Proto-West Germanic
*kukinā
Old English
cyċen
Middle English
kichene
English, today
kitchen
Built from
From Middle English kichene, kichen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic kukinā, a borrowing from Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and a doublet of cuisine (Latin via French -).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA