culinary

Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.

Adjective

  1. Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
    • Her culinary skills were excellent.
    • Sizzling kebabs, delicious kheer and the ever popular haleem -it's a clear sign that Ramadan sure brings with it a culinary awakening. At the same time, Ramadan is all about discipline and faith. - 2016 June 16, Nandita...
  2. Of or relating to a kitchen.

Origin

Borrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).

Forms

more culinary most culinary

Synonyms

cooking coquinary culinarian magirological magiristic magiric

Related

cook kiln recipe

Derived

culinarian culinarily culinary art culinary linguistics ethnoculinary medicoculinary nonculinary