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chef
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8 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. chef
  2. chef d'école
  3. chef de cabinet
  4. chef de cuisine
  5. chef d'oeuvre
  6. chef's knife
  7. chef's salad
  8. rounds 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
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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

Other Job Terms

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

Rhymes with CHEF

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

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