cuisine

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

• IPA^(key): /kwɪˈziːn/, /kəˈziːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn

cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)

1. (countable, uncountable) A characteristic manner or 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. (countable, uncountable) The food prepared using such style.
   • 2024 June 6, Brooke Younger, “What Is Swicy, and Why Do You Need It in Your Life?”, in Cozymeal‎^[1]:

     For example, salsa and pico de gallo from Mexican cuisine sometimes include fruits like peach, mango or pineapple, balancing hot peppers like habanero or jalapeño with their sweetness. […] Cookbooks covering cuisines that feature swicy flavor profiles are a great place to start.

3. (uncountable) Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food in general.
4. (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.

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

• curry

• gastronomy

Borrowed 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 (“kitchen; cooking, cooked food”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen”). First attested in the 12th century.^[1] 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. culinary art or cuisine

   J’aime la cuisine française.

   I like French cooking.

• Haitian Creole: lakizin
• → English: cuisine
• → Malagasy: lakozy
• →? Tamil: குசினி (kuciṉi)
• →? Telugu: కుశిని (kuśini)

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.