plural chefs
1
: a skilled professional cook
a trained chef
specifically
: one who is in charge of a professional kitchen
I wrote to the chef of an acclaimed New American restaurant on the Upper East Side about my food experiences. He invited me to spend a few days in the kitchen on a trial basis. —
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: cook
chef
intransitive verb
Examples of chef in a Sentence
The hotel's chef trained at the finest culinary institutes in Europe.
He's the head chef at a five-star restaurant.
a celebrity chef with her own TV show
My friend is an excellent chef.
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Sandoval is head of the Croque Group and comes from three generations of chefs.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
International artists, chefs and designers arrived, scooping up inexpensive studio spaces, opening restaurants and integrating themselves into the city’s imaginative nightlife.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
At any sushi restaurant, vegetarians are limited to very few items on the menu, usually a simple cucumber maki or the chef’s sole vegetarian roll.
—Irene Milanez, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2025
Murano will be an offshoot of the chef’s namesake Ferraro’s Kitchen Restaurant and Wine Bar in Miami and Blue Ridge, Georgia, and will feature dishes such as sea scallop gratin, zucchini rolls with shrimps and polpo alla Adriatica.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 7 July 2025
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John Mariani, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
International artists, chefs and designers arrived, scooping up inexpensive studio spaces, opening restaurants and integrating themselves into the city’s imaginative nightlife.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
At any sushi restaurant, vegetarians are limited to very few items on the menu, usually a simple cucumber maki or the chef’s sole vegetarian roll.
—Irene Milanez, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2025
Murano will be an offshoot of the chef’s namesake Ferraro’s Kitchen Restaurant and Wine Bar in Miami and Blue Ridge, Georgia, and will feature dishes such as sea scallop gratin, zucchini rolls with shrimps and polpo alla Adriatica.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 7 July 2025
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“Chef.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chef. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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chef
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: a chief cook
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