cuisine
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See also: cuisiné
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of kitchen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwɪˈziːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
Noun
cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)
- (countable, uncountable) A characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.
- French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.
- The restaurant is noted for its excellent cuisine.
- (uncountable) Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food, generally.
- (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.
Synonyms
- (characteristic style of preparing food): culinary art, kitchen
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
characteristic style of preparing food
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culinary art — see culinary art
See also
Dutch
Etymology
From French cuisine, from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of keuken.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
cuisine f (uncountable)
- cuisine; a characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin
- Synonym: keuken
Related terms
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Cognate with English kitchen.
Pronunciation
Noun
cuisine f (plural cuisines)
- kitchen
- Brian est dans la cuisine
- Brian is in the kitchen.
- cuisine
- J’aime la cuisine française.
- I like French cooking.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Verb
cuisine
- inflection of cuisiner:
Further reading
- “cuisine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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