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cookroom

noun

Etymology

From cook + room.

  1. inherited from *(H)rewH-✻ — “to root; to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *rūmą✻ — “room”
  3. inherited from *rūm✻ — “room”
  4. inherited from rūm — “room, space”
  5. inherited from roum — “room, space”
  6. compounded as cookroom — “cook + room”

Definitions

  1. A kitchen or room for cookery.

    • […] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage.

  2. The galley or caboose of a ship.

    • […] in all their Ships (for the most Part) the Cook-rooms are built in their Forecastles, contrary to that which hath been anciently used.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA