Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A characteristic manner or style of preparing food: Spanish cuisine.
- n. Food; fare.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kitchen.
- n. The culinary department of a house, hotel, etc., including the cooks.
- n. The manner or style of cooking; cookery.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The kitchen or cooking department.
- n. Manner or style of cooking.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared
Etymologies
- Borrowed from French cuisine ("cooking, culinary art, kitchen"). More details: see there. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *cocīna, variant of Latin coquīna, kitchen, cookery, from coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It appears that much of the cuisine is an intuitive affair, based on the state, and available ingredients.”
“Many human beings are under the deplorable mistake of supposing we live on slimy water and dirty insects – ha, ha, ha! whereas our cuisine is astounding in variety and delicacy of material and flavour.”
“It seems reliable Asian cuisine is available to us, for a certain price.”
“You can infuse personality, style, and culture into the cuisine, in other words, really make your wedding a memorable experience for your guests, without creating a full “theme” wedding.”
“French cuisine went through a major slimming phase nearly 40 years ago—it was called cuisine minceur .”
“Chinese cuisine is one of the glories of the world, and their meals are well balanced, but in ways that we westerners have no idea.”
“My education into American regional cuisine is complete.”
“Moroccan cuisine is far from repulsive although it can get a little repetitive once you have permed every combination of cous-cous and tajine with goat, chicken, fish and vegetables.”
“They will continue, in other words, to shape the future of this fascinating, complex thing we call cuisine.”
“I am not a fan of restaurants in the first place; prefer my own cooking anyway, so cuisine is not an issue for me, nor is good wine: Thursday's vintage of Padre Kino is aok, even if it does stain the bottle red.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cuisine’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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writing first chapter
revolve, vital, necessity, depict, archery, indegenous, native, lacrosse, similarly, recess, composition, indicator and 91 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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cooked words
cook, cuisine, kitchen, quittor, apricot, precocious, biscotto, biscuit, charcuterie, concoct, decoct, ricotta and 89 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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taste
when describing about taste and flavour
tangy, mouth-watering, lip-smacking, finger-lickin', tasty, tastebuds, delicious, delectable, scrumptious, enjoy, relish, ambience and 10 more...
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Tamsin Harriman's Favourite Words
Words I love the sound of :)
rigmarole, thrive, hauteur, vichyssoise, terroir, risqué, crisply, effervesce, cinnamon, tapenade, clementine, umami and 8 more...
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Vocab Last Semester Exam
evacuated, relief, ritual, belief, practice, reality, enforce, authority, react, exploiting, exploited, exploits and 25 more...
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words I'm not sure if I hate or love
caulk, spunk, hint, pudding, poppy, plum, doodle, cuisine, garbage, codify, hamlet, hoax and 2 more...
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foodie list
pan, gourmet, mincing, clam, oyster, geoduck, scallop, meringue, baste, garam masala, rarebit, phyllo and 66 more...
Tweets
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