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Chez vs Chef - What's the difference?

chez | chef |

As a preposition chez

is at the home of.

As a noun chef is

the presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

chez

English

Preposition

(English prepositions)
  • At the home of
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2008 , date=February 28 , author=Lisa Forest , title=Mind the gap: Empty house, empty nest, empty fridge , work=The Telegraph citation , page= , passage=Even if I say so myself, Christmas chez the Forests is quite a heart-warming affair. For Ben, growing up, it was pure magic - a log fire in the grate, ...}}

    Derived terms

    * chez moi

    Anagrams

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    chef

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household
  • *<1845 , R. H. Barham, Blasphemer's Warning'' in ''Ingoldsby Legends (1847), 3rd Ser., 245
  • *:The Chef' s peace of mind was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board.
  • The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment
  • *1849 , Thackeray, Pendennis (1850), I. xxviii. 266
  • *:The angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.
  • Any cook
  • *Kiss the chef

    • Usage notes

    When used in reference to a cook with no sous-chefs or other workers beneath him, the term is connotes a certain degree of prestige—whether culinary education or ability—distinguishing the chef from a “cook”. As a borrowing, chef was originally italicized, but such treatment is now obsolete.

    Synonyms

    * (head cook) cook

    References

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