chef
n. countablen. a professional cook who is in charge of a kitchen. You use this word for someone who has been trained to cook at a high level.
n. a professional cook, typically the chief cook in a restaurant or hotel kitchen. Often implies a supervisory role or formal culinary training.
The chef prepares a special menu every Friday.
After years of training in Paris, she returned home to work as the head chef at a famous seafood restaurant.
The executive chef oversees not only the menu design and food preparation but also the inventory management and the coordination of the entire kitchen staff.
Unadapted borrowing from French chef (from the positions of chef d'office and chef de cuisine), from Old French chief (“head, leader”) (English chief), from Vulgar Latin capus (“head”) (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (possibly related to English cap (“head covering”)). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, and chief through Latin, and head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European.
Commonly used as a title before a name or as a standalone noun to refer to the person in charge of a kitchen.
He is a good cooker.He is a good chef.Learners often use 'cooker' to refer to a person, but 'cooker' is the machine used for cooking; a person is a 'chef' or a 'cook'.