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cuisine

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /kwɪˈziːn/
  • /kəˈziːn/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iːn
  • CMU ARPABET: K W IH0 Z IY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The food prepared using such style.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food in general.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: culinary art

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A kitchen or cooking department.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, dated

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: culinary art

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cooking, cookery, preparation

Narrower terms: dim sum, haute cuisine, nouvelle cuisine, rechauffe, gastronomy

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

119 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: gjellëtari — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Albanian: kuzhinë — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Arabic: طَبْخ (ṭabḵ) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Arabic: طَبِيخ (ṭabīḵ) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Arabic: مَطْبَخ (maṭbaḵ) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Arabic: أَطْعِمَة (ʔaṭʕima) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Armenian: խոհանոց (xohanocʻ) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Azerbaijani: mətbəx — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Bashkir: аш-һыу (aş-hıw) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Basque: sukaldaritza — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Belarusian: ку́хня (kúxnja) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Bengali: রন্ধনশৈলী (rondhonśōili) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Bengali: রন্ধনপ্রণালী (rondhonpronali) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Bulgarian: ку́хня (kúhnja) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Burmese: ချက်ပြုတ်နည်း (hkyakprutnany:) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Burmese: စာ (ca) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Burmese: အစားအစာ (a.ca:a.ca) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Catalan: cuina — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Chinese: 料理 (zh-min-nan) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 烹飪法 /烹饪法 (pēngrènfǎ) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 餐 (cān) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 料理 (liàolǐ) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 菜系 (càixì) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Czech: kuchyně — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Czech: kuchařství — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Danish: køkken — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Dutch: keuken — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Esperanto: kuirarto — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Estonian: köök — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Finnish: keittiö — characteristic style of preparing food
  • French: cuisine — characteristic style of preparing food
  • French: art culinaire — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Galician: cociña — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Georgian: სამზარეულო (samzareulo) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • German: Küche — characteristic style of preparing food
  • German: Kochkunst — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Greek: μαγειρική (mageirikí) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Greek: κουζίνα (kouzína) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Hebrew: מִטְבָּח (mitbákh) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Hindi: पाकशैली (pākśailī) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Hindi: पाक-प्रणाली (pāk-praṇālī) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Hindi: क्यूज़ीन (kyūzīn) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Hungarian: konyhaművészet — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Hungarian: konyha — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Icelandic: matargerð — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Indonesian: kuliner — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Indonesian: masakan — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Indonesian: hidangan — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Irish: cócaireacht — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Irish: bia — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Italian: cucina — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Italian: culinaria — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Japanese: 料理 (ryōri) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Japanese: 割烹 (kappō) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Kapampangan: pamaglutu — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Kazakh: тамақ (tamaq) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Kazakh: тағам (tağam) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Kazakh: асхана (asxana) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Khmer: ម្ហូប (mhoup) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Korean: 요리 (yori) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Korean: 료리 (ryori) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Northern Kurdish: mitfax — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Kyrgyz: ашкана (aşkana) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Kyrgyz: тамак (tamak) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Lao: ອາຫານ (ʼā hān) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Latvian: kulinārija — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Latvian: virtuve — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Lithuanian: virtuvė — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Macedonian: кујна (kujna) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Malay: kuliner — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Malay: masakan — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Mongolian: гал тогоо (gal togoo) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kjøkken — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjøken — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjøkken — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Pashto: اشپزي (ašpazí) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Pashto: آشپزي (āšpazí) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Pashto: اخلی پخلی (axláy paxláy) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Iranian Persian: آشْپَزی (âšpazi) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Iranian Persian: رَوِشِ آشْپَزی (raveš-e âšpazi) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Iranian Persian: مَطْبَخ (matbax) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Iranian Persian: خوراک (xorâk) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Iranian Persian: طَعام (ta'âm) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Polish: kuchnia — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Portuguese: cozinha — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Portuguese: culinária — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Russian: ку́хня (kúxnja) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Russian: кулинари́я (kulinaríja) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Serbo-Croatian: ку̏хиња — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȕhinja — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Slovak: kuchyňa — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Slovene: kuhinja — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Spanish: cocina — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Spanish: gastronomía — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Swedish: kök — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Swedish: matkultur — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Swedish: kokkonst — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Tagalog: pagluluto — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Tagalog: lutuin — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Tajik: матбах (matbax) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Tajik: таомҳо (taomho) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Tajik: таом (taom) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Tajik: ошхона (ošxona) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Tajik: ошпазӣ (ošpazi) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Tatar: аш-су (aş-su) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Thai: อาหาร (aa-hǎan) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Turkish: mutfak — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Turkmen: aşhana — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Ukrainian: ку́хня (kúxnja) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Urdu: طَعامی طَرْز (ta'āmī tarz) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Urdu: کْیُوزِین (kyūzīn) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Urdu: طَبّاخی کا طَرْز (tabbāxī kā tarz) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Urdu: طَعام (ta'ām) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Uyghur: ئاشخانا (ashxana) — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Uzbek: oshxona — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Uzbek: taom — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Uzbek: oshpazlik — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Uzbek: pazandalik — characteristic style of preparing food
  • Vietnamese: ẩm thực — characteristic style of preparing food
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