cuisine

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See also: cuisiné

English

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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)

  1. (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.
  2. (uncountable) Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food, generally.
  3. (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.

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Translations

culinary art — see culinary art

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Dutch

Etymology

From French cuisine, from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of keuken.

Pronunciation

Noun

cuisine f (uncountable)

  1. cuisine; a characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin
    Synonym: keuken

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Cognate with English kitchen.

Pronunciation

Noun

cuisine f (plural cuisines)

  1. kitchen
    Brian est dans la cuisine
    Brian is in the kitchen.
  2. cuisine
    J’aime la cuisine française.
    I like French cooking.

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Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: lakizin
  • → English: cuisine
  • → Malagasy: lakozy

Verb

cuisine

  1. inflection of cuisiner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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