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kitchener

kitchener noun: a kitchen servant; a cook.

Noun

kitchener (plural kitcheners)

  1. (obsolete) A kitchen servant; a cook.
    • The industry of all crafts has paused;—except it be the smith's, fiercely hammering pikes; and, in a faint degree, the kitchener's, cooking offhand victuals; for bouche va toujours [people need to eat].1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Give Us Arms”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (The Third Estate), page 179
  2. (obsolete) A stove for cooking.

Proper noun capitalized: Kitchener

Kitchener (countable and uncountable, plural Kitcheners)

  1. (countable) A surname originating as an occupation for someone who worked in a kitchen.
  2. (UK) A British earldom
  3. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal in the First World War
  4. A city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
  5. A small town in the City of Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.

kitchener meaning in Tamil

kitchener in Tamil

சுயம்பாகி

Forms of kitchener

Noun
pluralkitcheners
Proper noun
pluralKitcheners

Origin of kitchener

From Middle English kichenere, kychynnere, equivalent to kitchen + -er.

From kitchener, from kitchen + -er.

Words formed from kitchener

Phrases with kitchener

Questions about kitchener

What does kitchener mean?
Kitchener means a kitchen servant; a cook.
What is kitchener in Tamil?
Kitchener in Tamil is சுயம்பாகி. See Kitchener meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kitchener?
Kitchener can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kitchener?
The plural of kitchener is kitcheners.

Words near kitchener in the dictionary

  1. kitchenary
  2. kitchenboy
  3. kitchenboys
  4. kitchendom
  5. kitchened
  6. kitchener
  7. Kitchener bun
  8. Kitchener buns
  9. Kitchener stitch
  10. Kitchener stitches
  11. kitcheners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kitchener (page history and authors); Kitchener (page history and authors); kitchener (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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