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culinary

culinary

79 3.6
Related to cooking and preparing food
  • adjective
  • /ˈkʌlɪˌnɛri/
translation icon : culinario
  • After completing her studies, she opened a restaurant to showcase her culinary skills.
  • culinary skills
  • the culinary arts
  • culinary traditions

Are the experimental playground of your culinary exploits.

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Examples

  • Here, then, was a fine example of the human culinary imagination at work.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Tyler's gonna demonstrate his culinary expertise.

  • You went to culinary school, so yes.

  • You can appreciate the culinary profile here.

  • I have to prepare for the culinary competition - in two days.

  • What is this delightful culinary treat?

  • I'm very interested in growing culinary herbs, for instance.

  • For instance, the cafe contains five stations, each featuring a different geographical and culinary tradition.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Is said to have one of the country's strongest culinary traditions.

  • So Ingrid, being the dutiful daughter, went off to learn the secrets of the culinary arts.

    Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

gastronomic
vsculinary
3 6.6

About cooking and eating good food that people enjoy

is narrower, mainly about cooking and kitchen preparation
gastronomical
vsculinary
2 7.1

That relates to good food and how people cook and eat it

is focused more on practical cooking and kitchen work

Compounds

culinary art
  • Specialized
2 3.7

A skill for preparing and presenting food that people use as a job

A very tasty dish that people enjoy eating

A dish that shows a chef's personal cooking style

A very bad cooking mistake that makes food not good to eat

How Culinary

epicurean
1 9.1
gourmet
1 5.1
gastronomic
3 6.6
culinary
79 3.6

Surface Forms

culinary positive

Morphology

culinary = culin + ary

The stem 'culin-' is a Latin combining form (not a standalone English word), so although '-ary' is a regular adjective suffix, learners cannot transparently derive 'connected with cooking' from familiar English bases.

Etymology

Culinary comes from the Latin culina, which means 'kitchen'. Think of it like the English word cuisine, which also means 'style of cooking', so culinary simply means 'connected with cooking'.