cuisine
/kwɪˈziːn/
cuisine noun: a characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.
Noun
cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)
- A characteristic manner or 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.
- Synonyms:
- culinary art, kitchen
- The food prepared using such style.
- For example, salsa and pico de gallo from Mexican cuisine sometimes include fruits like peach, mango or pineapple, balancing hot peppers like habanero or jalapeño with their sweetness. […] Cookbooks covering cuisines that feature swicy flavor profiles are a great place to start.2024 June 6, Brooke Younger, “What Is Swicy, and Why Do You Need It in Your Life?”, in Cozymeal
- Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food in general.
- Synonyms:
- culinary art
- A kitchen or cooking department.
cuisine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cuisine in Hindi
- characteristic style of preparing food
- पाकशैली pākśailī, पाक-प्रणाली pāk-praṇālī, क्यूज़ीन kyūzīn
cuisine in Tamil
- சமையல் பாணி, சமையலின் தரம்
cuisine in Marathi
- पाककृती
cuisine in Urdu
- characteristic style of preparing food
- طَعامی طَرْز ta'āmī tarz, کْیُوزِین kyūzīn, طَبّاخی کا طَرْز tabbāxī kā tarz, طَعام ta'ām
More languagesFewer languages
- cuisine in Bengali
- রন্ধনশৈলী rondhonśōili, রন্ধনপ্রণালী rondhonpronali
- cuisine in Malayalam
- പാചകപദ്ധതി, പാചകവിദ്യ, പാചകം, പചം
- cuisine in Kannada
- ಅಡಿಗೆಯ ಬಗೆ, ಅಡಿಗೆಯ ವಿಧಾನ, ಪಾಕಪದ್ಧತಿ, ಪಾಕಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ
- cuisine in Gujarati
- રાંધણકળા
- cuisine in Odia
- ରନ୍ଧନଶୈଳୀ
- cuisine in Pashto
- اشپزي ašpazí, آشپزي āšpazí, اخلی پخلی axláy paxláy
- cuisine in Tagalog
- pagluluto, lutuin
- cuisine in Arabic
- طَبْخ ṭabḵ, طَبِيخ ṭabīḵ, مَطْبَخ maṭbaḵ, أَطْعِمَة ʔaṭʕima
- cuisine in Malay
- kuliner, masakan
- cuisine in Indonesian
- kuliner, masakan, hidangan
- cuisine in Thai
- อาหาร aa-hǎan
- cuisine in Vietnamese
- ẩm thực
- cuisine in Myanmar
- ချက်ပြုတ်နည်း hkyakprutnany:, စာ ca, အစားအစာ a.ca:a.ca
Examples of cuisine in a sentence
- The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
- Eighty-seven bucks for a three-ounce piece of fish? What a rip-off! Haute cuisine or not!
- We paid hella for that Chinese cuisine.
Synonyms of cuisine
Forms of cuisine
| plural | cuisines |
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Origin of cuisine
Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen”). Doublet of kitchen.
Words formed from cuisine
Phrases with cuisine
Words that rhyme with cuisine
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
- lien
Questions about cuisine
- What does cuisine mean?
- Cuisine means a characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.
- What is cuisine in Hindi?
- Cuisine in Hindi is पाकशैली (pākśailī), पाक-प्रणाली (pāk-praṇālī), क्यूज़ीन (kyūzīn). See Cuisine meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cuisine?
- Cuisine is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cuisine?
- Cuisine is pronounced /kwɪˈziːn/.
- What is the plural of cuisine?
- The plural of cuisine is cuisines.
Words near cuisine in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cuisine (page history and authors); cuisine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cuisine (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cuisine (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); cuisine (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cuisine (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cuisine (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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