kitchens

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of kitchen.

   The restaurant runs three separate kitchens, each handling a different cuisine.

   Inspectors visited several kitchens before issuing the new safety guidelines.

   Note

   A regular plural that adds -s with no change to the stem, and it covers more than rooms. Because kitchen can also mean a style of cooking, kitchens can name cuisines set side by side. In an orchestra, it can name percussion sections. The same spelling serves the verb form meaning 'cooks', and the neighbors tell them apart: the kitchens is the noun, he kitchens is the verb.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of kitchen.

   Note

   The verb behind this form works two ways. Without an object, it means doing the cooking itself: someone kitchens for a crew. With an object, it means dressing up plain food by seasoning it or adding condiments. By extension, it can mean embellishing almost anything. The -s ending appears only after he, she, it or a singular noun; every other present-tense subject takes the bare kitchen.

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