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kitchenette

kitchenette

8 3.8
A small area with a sink and fridge for making simple meals
  • noun
  • /ˌkɪtʃəˈnɛt/
translation icon : cocineta
  • The rooms were good-sized and included a kitchenette and private bath.

Here's your kitchenette and here is your bathroom.

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Examples

  • I found this motel, and a woman said we could have a room with a kitchenette.

  • This small apartment has a cozy kitchenette where I can prepare breakfast.

  • So, over here we have a kitchenette and over there is the bedroom.

  • This is a little kitchenette area with a toilet.

  • Maybe two rooms and a kitchenette.

  • Each resident typically has a private room, a bathroom, a kitchenette, and doors that lock.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The place was so tiny, but it had a kitchenette and it had a bathroom and it felt stable.

  • Penny walks past him, drops her keys and bag on the counter, and enters the kitchenette.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Sighing, Eva got up and went to the kitchenette, lit the stove, and put the kettle on.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • I was utterly charmed by the kitchenette, with its two-burner stovetop and miniature refrigerator.

    Fiction book (1997)

Synonyms

kitchen
vskitchenette
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A room in a house where people prepare and cook food

is a smaller cooking area for light meals in another room

How Big

kitchen
1.0
kitchenette
8 3.8

Surface Forms

kitchenette singular
kitchenettes plural

Morphology

kitchenette = kitchen (transparent) = kitchen + ette

The meaning is directly predictable as 'small kitchen' from 'kitchen' plus the diminutive suffix '-ette', a productive formation in English.

Etymology

Kitchenette comes from the familiar word kitchen plus the French ending -ette, which means 'little', as in cigarette. So a kitchenette is a 'little kitchen', a small space for preparing light meals.