{
    "term": "kitchen",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/ki/kitchen.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a room in which meals are cooked or prepared",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We ate at the **kitchen table**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the kitchen floor/window/door"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a stainless steel **kitchen sink**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He stabbed her with a **kitchen knife**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house has a fully **fitted kitchen** with custom-built units."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I sat at the kitchen island eating a bowl of cereal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We handed our trays through the kitchen hatch as we left."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes", "Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["clean", "spotless", "modern"],
                "kitchen + noun": ["area", "door", "floor"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the kitchen"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a very large number of things, probably more than is necessary",
            "labels": "(informal, humorous)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We seem to take everything but the kitchen sink when we go camping."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody to stop trying to do something if they find it too difficult, especially in order to suggest that they are less able than other people",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɪtʃɪn/",
                "audio": "ki/kitchen/kitchen__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɪtʃɪn/",
                "audio": "ki/kitchen/kitchen__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English cycene, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch keuken and German Küche, based on Latin coquere ‘to cook’."
}