cuisine

«cuisine» in Mova's school dictionary: a style of cooking from a certain country or region, such… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cuisine, cuisines)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cuisine is a style of cooking from a certain country or region, such as Italian cuisine or Indian cuisine. tree →

2) Cuisine is the food served, especially good-quality food, as in the restaurant's cuisine. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and food lessons, pupils taste dishes from different cuisines and learn how climate and history shape what people eat. In everyday life, restaurants and menus advertise their cuisine. French cuisine is famous for sauces and pastries; Japanese cuisine for sushi.

examples

• Pizza and pasta are part of Italian cuisine. tree →
• Mexican cuisine uses lots of beans, corn and chillies. tree →
• The town has restaurants with cuisines from all over the world. tree →
• We studied Chinese cuisine in food technology. tree →
• Australian cuisine has many influences. tree →
• The hotel is famous for its fine cuisine. tree →

note

Said kwi-ZEEN; it comes from French and means kitchen. Countable when talking about types: cuisines of the world. A more formal word than cooking or food.

In the corpora

• La cuisine means the kitchen and also the cooking, which is why English says "French cuisine".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cuisine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.