kitchen

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A room or an area equipped for preparing and cooking food.
2. n. A style of cooking; cuisine: a restaurant with a fine French kitchen.
3. n. A staff that prepares, cooks, and serves food.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A room in which food is cooked; an apartment of a house fitted with the necessary apparatus for cooking.
2. n. In Scotland and Ireland, anything eaten by way of relish with bread, potatoes, porridge, or whatever forms the substantial part of a meal. Thus, when a meal is composed of potatoes and salt, the salt is the kitchen; if of bread and butter, the butter is the kitchen; if of potatoes and bread and fish, the fish is the kitchen.
3. n. A child's toy.
4. To entertain with the fare of the kitchen; furnish food to.
5. To serve as kitchen for; give a relish to; season; render palatable.
6. To use (food) as kitchen that is, sparingly, or so that it may last. Thus, a child eating bread and milk may be told to kitchen the milk—that is, use it sparingly in proportion to the bread.
7. n. In metallurgy, the space between the fire and line-bridges of a reverberatory furnace in which the work is performed. Also called the laboratory.

Wiktionary

1. n. A room or area for preparing food.
2. n. An admixture of languages spoken to convey meaning between non-native speakers.
3. n. African American Vernacular The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
4. n. Cuisine.
5. n. music The percussion section of an orchestra.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.
2. n. A utensil for roasting meat.
3. n. The staff that works in a kitchen.
4. v. obsolete To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a room equipped for preparing meals