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cuisine

kitchen

noun kwee-ZEEN Less Common

Also means

cooking, cuisine

Usage Note

Cuisine means both the physical kitchen room and the art of cooking or a culinary tradition — la cuisine française is French cooking. A cuisinier or cuisinière is a cook. Faire la cuisine means to cook, and is the most common way to express that activity in everyday speech.

Examples

"Elle fait la cuisine tous les soirs."

Natural Translation

She cooks every evening.

Literal Translation

She does the cooking every evening.

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