chef
NounUS[shef]/ʃɛf/1 syllable
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)chefs
- a professional cookType of cookKinds pastry cook, cordon bleu
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Translations
Noun head cook
- Spanish
- chef
- French
- chef
- German
- Chefkoch
- Italian
- chef
- Portuguese
- chef
- Turkish
- şef
- Russian
- шеф-по́вар šef-póvar
- Arabic
- طَاهٍ ṭāhin
- Chinese
- 主厨 zhǔchú
- Japanese
- シェフ shefu
33 more languages
- Dutch
- chef-kok
- Polish
- szef kuchni
- Swedish
- kökschef
- Greek
- αρχιμάγειρος archimágeiros
- Korean
- 주방장 jubangjang
- Indonesian
- koki
- Vietnamese
- bếp trưởng
- Hungarian
- séf
- Portuguese (PT)
- chef
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 主廚 zhǔchú
- Albanian
- shef kuzhine
- Breton
- mestr-keginer
- Catalan
- xef
- Czech
- šéfkuchař
- Danish
- køkkenchef
- Esperanto
- ĉefkuiristo
- Estonian
- peakokk
- Finnish
- keittiömestari
- Georgian
- შეფ-მზარეული šep-mzareuli
- Hebrew
- שֶׁף shef
- Icelandic
- yfirkokkur
- Kurdish
- aşpêj
- Latvian
- šefpavārs
- Lithuanian
- vyriausiasis virėjas
- Norwegian
- kjøkkensjef
- Romanian
- bucătar-șef
- Scottish Gaelic
- prìomh-chòcaire
- Serbo-Croatian
- šef kuhinje
- Slovak
- šéfkuchár
- Slovenian
- glavni kuhar
- Swahili
- mpishi mkuu
- Welsh
- pen-cogydd
- Yiddish
- קוכער kukher
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Chef noun
Origin: F.
1. A chief or head person.
2. The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.
3. Heraldry Same as Chief.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54