cuisine

Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of kitchen.

• IPA^(key): /kwɪˈziːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn

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.

• (characteristic style of preparing food): culinary art, kitchen

• curry

• gastronomy

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

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cuisine f (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: keuken

• haute cuisine

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

• IPA^(key): /kɥi.zin/

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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.

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

cuisine

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

• “cuisine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.