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CHEF: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CHEF?

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Need another word that means the same as “chef”? Find 3 synonyms and 30 related words for “chef” in this overview.

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Chef as a Noun
Definitions of "Chef" as a noun
Synonyms of "Chef" as a noun (3 Words)
Associations of "Chef" (30 Words)

The synonyms of “Chef” are: cook, cordon bleu cook, food preparer

Chef as a Noun

Definitions of "Chef" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “chef” as a noun can have the following definitions:

A professional cook.
A professional cook, typically the chief cook in a restaurant or hotel.

Synonyms of "Chef" as a noun (3 Words)

cook	Someone who cooks food. Susan was a school cook.
cordon bleu cook	Cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank.
food preparer	Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking.

Associations of "Chef" (30 Words)

bake	A social gathering at which baked food of a specified kind is eaten. Lobster bakes.
baked	Intoxicated by drink or drugs, especially cannabis. Land lying baked* in the heat.*
bakery	Baked goods such as bread and cakes. Bakery items.
baste	Cover with liquid before cooking. Slip herbs under the skin and baste* the chicken constantly.*
bread	Coat food with breadcrumbs before cooking. His day job puts bread* on the table.*
broil	Cook under a broiler. The sun broils the valley in the summer.
cafe	A shop selling sweets, cigarettes, newspapers, etc. and staying open after normal hours.
cake	An item of soft sweet food made from a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and sometimes iced or decorated. The blood under his nose was beginning to cake.
cook	A person who prepares and cooks food especially as a job or in a specified way. The band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook.
cooked	Altered dishonestly; falsified. As the result of cooked* books stock prices soared.*
cookery	The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat. Cookery writers.
cooking	Suitable for or used in cooking. Authentic Italian cooking.
crispy	Tender and brittle. Crispy fried bacon.
crust	Form a crust or form into a crust. A crust* of snow.*
flour	Convert grain into flour. Manioc flour.
fried	Under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Ronnie broke out a bottle of Scotch we all got pretty fried.
goody	A good or favoured person, especially a hero in a book, film, etc.
grill	Cook over or under a grill. He cooked hamburgers on the grill.
johnnycake	Maize flour bread typically baked or fried on a griddle.
microwave	Cook food in a microwave oven. He microwaved some steak out of the freezer.
oven	A small furnace or kiln. Bake the dish in a preheated oven.
pan	An amount of something contained in a pan. The critics panned the performance.
paste	A paste used as an adhesive especially for sticking paper. He pasted his opponent.
pastry	An item of food consisting of sweet pastry with a cream jam or fruit filling. Spread the mixture over the pastry.
preparation	Something done to get ready for an event or undertaking. A microscope preparation.
recipe	A medical prescription. It would be useless to enumerate all the drugs and recipes for their application which have been tried.
roast	The process of roasting something especially coffee or the result of this. Jessica could feel her face begin to roast.
smoked	Dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke. A plate of smoked* salmon.*
tamp	A tool for tamping e g for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc. When the hole was tamped to the top gunpowder was inserted.
toaster	A kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread.