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culinary

/ˈkʌlɪnɛri/
/ˈkjulɪˌnɛri/
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Other forms: culinarily

Culinary means having to do with cooking or the kitchen. If you go to culinary school, you're learning how to cook, most likely because you want to work as a chef.

If you have a culinary streak, you might love cooking for your friends or maybe just watching cooking shows on TV. If your culinary repertoire includes nothing beyond tuna sandwiches and mac-and-cheese out of the box, you have a lot to learn, culinarily speaking!

Definitions of culinary
  1. adjective
    of or relating to or used in cooking
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