ship's galley
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4.4
- noun
- /ʃɪps ˈɡæli/
- Specialized
:
cocina del barco
- The crew members often spent their breaks in the ship's galley, enjoying warm meals together.
Examples
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Standing on the tips of my fins in chest-deep water and leaning against the jagged remains of a bulkhead that used to be part of the ship's galley, I can hear voices in the memorial through the slap of the waves.
Academic text (1991) -
A narrow corridor led him to the ship's galley, which was again empty.
Fiction book (2000) -
The chef prepared a delicious stew in the ship's galley during the storm.
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Guests gathered in the ship's galley as the crew served hot meals for everyone.
Synonyms
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1.0
A room in a house where people prepare and cook food
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5.3
The kitchen on a ship, plane, or train where food is prepared
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6.0
A building where people make and cook food for a group, for example on a ship or in a camp
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9.4
A small kitchen on a ship where the cook prepares meals
A large kitchen in a building where staff cook meals for many people
How Equipped
Surface Forms
Morphology
ship's + galley
The phrase is compositionally built from 'ship's' (possessive of ship, indicating location/ownership) + 'galley' (a compact kitchen aboard a ship), so the meaning 'the kitchen on a ship' is directly derivable from the parts. This possessive + noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English noun composition, making it immediately understandable to learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Ship's galley comes from old ships where cooks worked in a small, safe space called the galley. One popular story says the galley was below deck and pots were tied down so they would not fall when the ship moved, so the phrase now means the ship's 'kitchen'.