chef

(shĕf)

A cook, especially the chief cook of a large kitchen staff.

[French, short for chef de cuisine, chef de cuisine; see chef de cuisine.]

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chef

(ʃɛf)

(Cookery) a cook, esp the principal cook in a restaurant

[C19: from French, from Old French chief head, chief]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

chef

(ʃɛf)

n.

1. the chief cook, esp. in a restaurant or hotel, responsible for menu planning and overseeing food preparation.

2. any cook.

[1835–45; < French; see chief]

chef

– chief

1. 'chef'

A chef /ʃef/ is a cook in a hotel or restaurant.

Her recipe was passed on to the chef.

He works as a chef in a large Paris hotel.

2. 'chief'

The chief /tʃiːf/ of a group or organization is its leader.

The police chief has resigned.

I spoke to Jim Stretton, chief of UK operations.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

chef - a professional cook

cook - someone who cooks food

cordon bleu - a chef famous for his great skill

pastry cook - a chef who specializes in pastry

chef

noun

A person who prepares food for eating:

cook.

Translations

رَئيسُ الطُّهاةِطاهٍ

šéfkuchař

kokkøkkenchef

Koch Küchenchef

σεφ

cocinero jefe de cocina jefe

keittiömestari

chef cuisinier

kuhar

fõszakács

matreiîslumaîur, kokkur

chef cuoco

シェフ

요리사

vyriausiasis virėjas

šefpavārs

šéfkuchár

glavni kuhar

kock

หัวหน้าพ่อครัว

aşcıbaşıaşçıbaşı

đầu bếp

主厨厨师厨师长

chef

[ʃef] N → cocinero/a m/f jefe/a, chef m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chef

[ˈʃɛf] n → chef m (cuisinier)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

chef

n → Küchenchef m; (as profession) → Koch m; (= head chef) → Chefkoch m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

chef

[ʃɛf] n → chef m inv, capocuoco

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

chef

(ʃef) noun

a head cook, especially a man, in a hotel etc.

chef

→ طاهٍ šéfkuchař kok Koch σεφ jefe de cocina keittiömestari chef kuhar chef シェフ 요리사 chef-kok kjøkkensjef szef kuchni chefe de cozinha шеф-повар kock หัวหน้าพ่อครัว aşçıbaşı đầu bếp 厨师

What is the chef's specialty? (US)
What is the chef's speciality? (UK) → Jaká je specialita šefkuchaře? → Hvad er chefens specialitet? → Qual è la specialità dello chef? → Wat is de specialiteit van de kok? → Hva er kokkens spesialitet? → Qual é a especialidade do chefe? → Vad är kockens specialitet? → Aşçının özel tercihi nedir? → 大厨的特色菜是什么？

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For dinner IS a mystery,--a mystery of which even the greatest chef knows but little, as a poet knows not,

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Tinsley, bowed down with the laurels of both hemispheres, raises himself to yet nobler heights in his capacity of a devoted chef. It is almost unbelievable!

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Her relatives considered that the penury of her table discredited the Mingott name, which had always been associated with good living; but people continued to come to her in spite of the "made dishes" and flat champagne, and in reply to the remonstrances of her son Lovell (who tried to retrieve the family credit by having the best chef in New York) she used to say laughingly: "What's the use of two good cooks in one family, now that I've married the girls and can't eat sauces?"

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"Yes, a chef d'oeuvre of the great Florentine sculptor, Benvenuto Cellini," replied Athos.

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Au chef du gouvernement francais," said Dolgorukov, with grave satisfaction.

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"Come, let us sit down and try what the new chef here is like, and then you will tell us how it all came about."

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* Voltaire, in speaking of Persepolis, says, "Je connois bien l'admiration qu'inspirent ces ruines - mais un palais erigé au pied d'une chaine des rochers sterils - peut il être un chef d'œvure des arts !"

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They have not even a cathedral, with eleven tons of solid silver archbishops in the back room; and they do not show you any moldy buildings that are seven thousand years old; nor any smoke-dried old fire-screens which are chef d'oeuvres of Reubens or Simpson, or Titian or Ferguson, or any of those parties; and they haven't any bottled fragments of saints, and not even a nail from the true cross.

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And then Lord Greystoke wiped his greasy fingers upon his naked thighs and took up the trail of Kulonga, the son of Mbonga, the king; while in far-off London another Lord Greystoke, the younger brother of the real Lord Greystoke's father, sent back his chops to the club's CHEF because they were underdone, and when he had finished his repast he dipped his finger-ends into a silver bowl of scented water and dried them upon a piece of snowy damask.

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A chef d'oeuvre of that kind of quiet evolution of character through circumstance, introduced into English literature by Miss Austen, and carried to perfection in France by George Sand (who is more to the point, because, like Mrs.

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Reuter sat silent a moment; some novel movements were evidently working in her mind, and they showed their nature on her astute brow; she was meditating some CHEF D'OEUVRE of policy.

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Little boys, in the costumes of French chefs, paraded up and down the irregular aisles vending fancy cakes.

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