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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A cook, especially the chief cook of a large kitchen staff.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An obsolete form of chief.
  2. n. A head or chief; specifically, a head cook, etc.
  3. n. A reliquary in the shape of a human head with or without the shoulders, either standing alone or placed upon a substructure or base, formerly made to receive the whole or a portion of the head of a Saint or martyr. Chefs were commonly made of metal, as copper, fashioned by the repoussé process, gilded, chased, and otherwise ornamented; but they were sometimes carved in wood and covered with thin plates of silver or gold. See cut in next column.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The head cook of an establishment such as a restaurant, club, or wealthy family.
  2. n. Chief.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A chief or head person.
  2. n. The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.
  3. n. (Her.) Same as Chief.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a professional cook

Etymologies

  1. From French chef de cuisine ("head of kitchen, head of cooking"), Old French chief ("head, leader") (English chief), from Late Latin capum ("head") (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput ("head") (English cap ("head covering")), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, short for chef de cuisine, head of the kitchen; see chief. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • madmouth I love the implication, in the definition "someone who cooks food", that there are lots of other things to cook.

    the French literally means 'boss' (akin to 'chief'), which is how it's used in SBC (spelled šef).

    I believe there is a similar aesthetic sensibility (and conceptual system) to the French and Japanese. in Japanese, the chef in the kitchen is also 'boss': taisho. Jul 12, 2009

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