chef

chef

noun \ˈshef\

Definition of CHEF

1

: a skilled cook who manages the kitchen (as of a restaurant)

2

: cook

— chef intransitive verb

— chef·dom \-dəm\ noun

Examples of CHEF

1. The hotel's chef trained at the finest culinary institutes in Europe.
2. He's the head chef at a five-star restaurant.
3. a celebrity chef with her own TV show
4. My friend is an excellent chef.

Origin of CHEF

French, short for chef de cuisine head of the kitchen

First Known Use: 1840

Related to CHEF

Synonyms: cook, cooker, culinarian

Related Words: baker, pâtissier (or patissier); barbecuer, griller

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Other Job Terms

factotum, milliner, ostler, scrivener, tinker, webster, wordsmith

Rhymes with CHEF

clef, deaf, ef, f, kef, lev, ref, teff