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culinary

  • adjective
  • /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/

Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.

Example

“Her culinary skills were excellent.”

Other meanings

  1. Of or relating to a kitchen.

Related words

  • ethnoculinary
  • medicoculinary
  • nonculinary
  • culinarian
  • culinarily
  • culinary linguistics
  • culinary art

Word history

From Latin "culīnārius".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “culinary” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.