KITCHEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kitchen mean? 

• KITCHEN (noun)
  The noun KITCHEN has 1 sense:

1. a room equipped for preparing meals

  Familiarity information: KITCHEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KITCHEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A room equipped for preparing meals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("kitchen" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kitchen"):

caboose; cookhouse; galley; ship's galley (the area for food preparation on a ship)

galley (the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner)

kitchenette (small kitchen)

Holonyms ("kitchen" is a part of...):

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)

 Context examples 

The king’s kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at top, and about six hundred feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Jo's desk up here was an old tin kitchen which hung against the wall.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I shook hands with Mr. Peggotty, and passed into the kitchen, while he softly closed the door.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Cunninghams joined us, as you doubtless remember, outside the kitchen door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maria hurried into the room from the kitchen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Refrain from buying a car, computer, smartphone, kitchen appliance, or anything else with electronics or moving parts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

As you hope ever to be forgiven, Mr. Rivers, the high crime and misdemeanour of spoiling a sanded kitchen, tell me what I wish to know.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then by her magic arts made the iron invisible to human eyes.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“Her husband lies snoring on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates of Mr. Rucastle’s.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As soon as he showed signs of life we wrapped him up in blankets and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen stove.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)