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Definition: Culinary |
CulinaryAdjective1. Of or relating to or used in cooking. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "culinary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Adjective: eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary; cereal, cibarious; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent; bibulous. |
Preparation | Training; (education); inurement; (habit); novitiate; cooking, cookery; brewing, culinary art; tilling, plowing, sowing; semination, cultivation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Culinary |
| English words defined with "culinary": Arctium lappa ♦ calendula, cocklebur, common basil ♦ Finochio ♦ great burdock, greater burdock ♦ Ocimum basilicum ♦ Potstone ♦ sweet basil, Sweet herbs ♦ vegetable marrow. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "culinary": english loaf ♦ tin loaf ♦ wok-on-the-wall. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Culinary Carving (1939) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Daughter of Mormon farmer washing dishes. In most of the Mormon communities running culinary water is common. Snowville, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Makes you wonder what culinary heights the kitchen staff could rise to if you confined them to perpetual darkness |
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Business | For example, as many as 50,000 Palestinians from Ramallah now live in the U.S. (10,000 from Hebron and Nablus) and are influencing the cultural and culinary life of the PA, specially the younger generation. (references) | |
Economic History | Australia | In addition, foreign travel is relatively common, especially by the generation now entering the work force, and these consumers have broadened their culinary horizons. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | Category I includes: bakery & bakery related products; non-alcoholic beverages & beverage mixes; candies & confectionery products; cocoa & cocoa related products; coffee, tea & non-dairy creamer; condiments, sauces & seasonings; culinary products; gelatin, dessert preparation & mixes; dairy products; dressings & spreads; flour/flour mixes & starch; fish & other marine products; fruits, vegetable & edible fungi (prepared); meat and poultry products (prepared); noodles, pastas & pastry wrapper; nut & nut products; native delicacies; oils, fats & shortening; snack foods & breakfast cereals and; sugar & other related products. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Culinary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Culinary" is used about 250 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 250 | 18,796 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | California Culinary Academy, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "culinary": culinary art ♦ culinary flour. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "culinary": culinary-minded. | |
Ending with "culinary": non-culinary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "culinary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i kuzhinës (cooking), i gatimit. (various references) | |
Arabic | مطبخي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кулинарен, готварски (cooking). (various references) | |
Chinese | 烹饪 (gastronomic, gastronomical). (various references) | |
Czech | kuchařský. (various references) | |
Danish | krydderplanter (culinary herbs, kitchen herbs, potherbs, pot-herbs), koekkenurter (culinary herbs, kitchen herbs, potherbs, pot-herbs), koekkenplanter (culinary herbs, kitchen herbs, potherbs, pot-herbs), bordsirup (culinary syrup). (various references) | |
Dutch | tafelstroop (culinary syrup), keukenkruiden (culinary herbs, kitchen herbs, potherbs, pot-herbs). (various references) | |
Farsi | پختنی , مربوطبه اشپزخانه , اشپخانه ای . (various references) | |
Finnish | mausteyrtit (culinary herbs, kitchen herbs, potherbs, pot-herbs), maustekasvit (culinary herbs, kitchen herbs, potherbs, pot-herbs), keittotaito (cookery, culinary art). (various references) | |
French | culinaire. (various references) | |
German | kulinarisch (gastronomic), Koch.... (various references) | |
Greek | μαγειρικόσ, μαγειρικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | של "מטבח. (various references) | |
Hungarian | konyhai-, konyhai (kitchen), étkezési (eating, prandial). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perdapuran (culinary matters). (various references) | |
Italian | cuoco (chef, cook), culinario, gastronomico (gastronomic). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 炊事 (cooking, culinary arts). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいじ (cooking, culinary arts). (various references) | |
Manx | yn-choagyrey, kishdinagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulinarycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | culinário, culinária (cookery). (various references) | |
Romanian | culinar. (various references) | |
Russian | кулинарный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kulinarski. (various references) | |
Spanish | culinario. (various references) | |
Swedish | matlagnings-, kulinarisk, köks-. (various references) | |
Turkish | yemek pişirme ile ilgili, mutfak ile ilgili. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | куховарський, кулінарний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "culinary": nonculinary. (additional references) | |
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"Culinary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caliari, Cipivari, Clinord, culanary, Culina, Culinaires, culinare, culinarily, culinery, Culleonard, cullinary, gulunay, pulvinar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "culinary" (pronounced kyuw"lune'rē) |
| 6 | -l u n e' r ē | disciplinary, interdisciplinary. |
| 5 | -u n e' r ē | bicentenary, cardiopulmonary, cautionary, centenary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, coronary, counterrevolutionary, deflationary, dictionary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, functionary, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, noninflationary, ordinary, preliminary, probationary, pulmonary, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, seminary, stationary, stationery, urinary, veterinary, visionary. |
| 4 | -n e' r ē | quaternary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, Cassowary, cemetery, cometary, commentary, commissary, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, cranberry, customary, depositary, Dewberry, dietary, dignitary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, interplanetary, involuntary, legendary, library, literary, military, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, nonmilitary, obituary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, primary, proprietary, raspberry, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, solitary, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: uranylic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-n-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: anuric, cairny, carlin, curial, lunacy, racily, uncial, uracil, uranic, uranyl, urinal. | |
-3 letters: aulic, auric, cairn, carny, clary, curia, curly, incur, inlay, linac, lunar, lyric, naric, rainy, riyal, runic, ulnar, unary, uncia, unlay, urial, yulan. | |
-4 letters: acyl, airn, airy, anil, aril, aryl, ayin, cain, carl, carn, caul, clan, clay, curl, curn, cyan, inly, lacy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-n-r-u-y" | |
+1 letter: incurably, raunchily, unclarity, unlyrical. | |
+2 letters: culinarily. | |
+3 letters: anticruelty, binocularly, inculpatory, inscrutably, nonculinary, numerically, pecuniarily, uncertainly. | |
+4 letters: avuncularity, binocularity, elocutionary, exclusionary, granulocytic, inaccurately, inarticulacy, interfaculty, neurotically, radiolucency, uncharitably, uncritically, ungraciously, unhysterical, unicamerally, unironically. | |
+5 letters: acrimoniously, carnivorously, centrifugally, conclusionary, connaturality, convulsionary, documentarily, encouragingly, hallucinatory, illocutionary, intraocularly, puritanically, uncustomarily, unnecessarily, unpredictably, unsymmetrical. | |
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