Meaning & use

cuisine

noun·Academic

A style of cooking characteristic of a particular country, region, or restaurant.

See it in a sentence

The small downtown restaurant specializes in traditional, home-style Thai cuisine.

Their honeymoon menu featured a mix of French and Japanese cuisine.

A note on using this word

Cuisine is often used to sound more formal or refined than the plain word cooking.

Words with a similar meaning

cookinggastronomy

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