chef

Definition

  • noun: a professional cook who usually is in charge of a kitchen in a restaurant
  • noun: a skilled cook who manages the kitchen (as of a restaurant)

Examples

  • The hotel's 'chef' trained at the finest culinary institutes in Europe.

  • He's the 'head chef' at a five-star restaurant.

  • a 'celebrity chef' with her own TV show

Movie quotes

  • (..) some genuine and some... not quite so genuine. And what's great is that lots of friends have ended up in this part of London. That's Tony, for example, architect turned chef, who recently invested all the money he ever earned in a new restaurant. And so, this is where l spend my days and years... (..)
    1999 Notting Hill