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kitchener
/ˈkɪtʃənɚ/
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What does kitchener mean?
proper noun
- A surname originating as an occupation for someone who worked in a kitchen.
- A British earldom
- Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal in the First World War
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- A city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- A small town in the City of Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
noun
- (obsolete) A kitchen servant; a cook.
- (obsolete) A stove for cooking.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɪtʃənɚ/
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Lord Kitchener was fond of saying that he had never been intended for a soldier, but for an architect and house-decorator.
Its arrangements included ten inviting bunks, a kitchener, and a table; the latter, moreover, had a brand-new American-cloth cover.
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Probably this was the chief reason which prompted Lord Kitchener, then Secretary of State for War, to agree to the transference of this section to another Ministry, and consent to the birth of the Trench Warfare Department.
Then the warriors, a kingly escort, generals, bronzed and worn, from the ends of the earth come up to London Town, volunteer officers, officers of the militia and regular forces; Spens and Plumer, Broadwood and Cooper who relieved Ookiep, Mathias of Dargai, Dixon of Vlakfontein; General Gaselee and Admiral Seymour of China; Kitchener of Khartoum; Lord Roberts of India and all the world—the fighting men of England, masters of destruction, engineers of death!