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kitchener

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[ kich-uh-ner ]

noun

  1. a person employed in, or in charge of, a kitchen.
  2. an elaborate kitchen stove.


Kitchener

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[ kich-uh-ner ]

noun

  1. Horatio Herbert 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
  2. a city in S Ontario, in SE Canada.

Kitchener

1

/ ˈɪʃɪə /

noun

  1. an industrial town in SE Canada, in S Ontario: founded in 1806 as Dutch Sand Hills, it was renamed Berlin in 1830 and Kitchener in 1916. Pop: 190 399 (2001)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Kitchener

2

/ ˈɪʃɪə /

noun

  1. KitchenerHoratio Herbert, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum18501916MBritishMILITARY: generalPOLITICS: statesman Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum. 1850–1916, British field marshal. As head of the Egyptian army (1892–98), he expelled the Mahdi from the Sudan (1898), occupying Khartoum; he also commanded British forces (1900–02) in the Boer War and (1902–09) in India. He conducted the mobilization of the British army for World War I as war minister (1914–16); he was drowned on his way to Russia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of kitchener1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; kitchen, -er 1
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Dr Andrew Kitchener, of National Museums Scotland - where the bear fossils are held - said polar and brown bear habitats may have overlapped thousands of years ago as they do today.

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Guest: Caroline Kitchener, national reporter covering abortion for the Washington Post.

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The auction house, which opened in the town’s High Street in January, previously sold a scarce Lord Kitchener £2 for £1,000 and an unusual Olympics 50p for £1,500.

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Anne Innis Dagg, who broke ground in the 1950s as one of the world’s first biologists to study giraffes in the wild, then spent decades fighting sexism in Canadian universities before finally finding long-overdue acclaim in the 2010s, died on April 1 in Kitchener, Ontario, west of Toronto.

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Anne Innis Dagg, 91, a Canadian zoologist who broke new ground in animal research while studying giraffes in the wild and who later campaigned against institutional sexism after she was denied tenure by an all-male committee and told that women belonged in the home instead of the academy, died April 1 at a hospital in Kitchener, Ontario.

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