chef

chef

noun \ˈshef\

: a professional cook who usually is in charge of a kitchen in a restaurant

: a person who prepares food for people to eat

Full 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

Other Job Terms

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

Rhymes with CHEF

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