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cookshop

cookshop

5.1
A large kitchen in a building where staff cook meals for many people
  • noun
  • Archaic
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  • The school's cookshop was renovated to provide better meals for the students.

Examples

  • During the festival, volunteers worked together in the cookshop to feed hundreds of visitors.

  • Many cookshops are equipped with modern appliances.

  • The old manor had a spacious cookshop where meals for the entire staff were prepared.

  • The school has a large cookshop for preparing meals.

  • The old manor had a spacious cookshop where meals for the entire staff were prepared.

  • During the festival, volunteers worked together in the cookshop to feed hundreds of visitors.

  • The school's cookshop was renovated to provide better meals for the students.

Synonyms

kitchen
vscookshop
1.0

A room in a house where people prepare and cook food

is used especially for larger institutional cooking rather than small domestic use
galley
vscookshop
29 5.3

The kitchen on a ship, plane, or train where food is prepared

is about buildings or rooms serving groups rather than vehicle kitchens
cookhouse
vscookshop
  • Archaic
1 6.0

A building where people make and cook food for a group, for example on a ship or in a camp

is often inside or part of a larger institution rather than standalone
ship's galley
vscookshop
  • Specialized
1 4.4

A kitchen on a ship where food is prepared and cooked

is for large institutional cooking rather than areas on vehicles

How Big

mess hall
  • Jargon
27 3.4
cookshop
  • Archaic
5.1
canteen
  • UK
14 2.4
kitchen
1.0

Surface Forms

cookshop singular
cookshops plural

Morphology

cookshop = cook + shop (semi-transparent) = cook + shop

The compound clearly denotes a place for cooking (cook + shop), but the sense of 'shop' as a workroom or institutional kitchen is less common and may require context for learners.

Etymology

Cookshop comes from the simple parts cook and shop, with shop meaning 'place'. So a cookshop is a place or big kitchen where food is cooked for a group, like at a school or manor.