kitchener

noun

1. a person employed in, or in charge of, a kitchen.
2. an elaborate kitchen stove.

noun

1. Horatio Herbert1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
2. a city in S Ontario, in SE Canada.

noun

1. an industrial town in SE Canada, in S Ontario: founded in 1806 as Dutch Sand Hills, it was renamed Berlin in 1830 and Kitchener in 1916. Pop: 190 399 (2001)

noun

1. Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum. 1850–1916, British field marshal. As head of the Egyptian army (1892–98), he expelled the Mahdi from the Sudan (1898), occupying Khartoum; he also commanded British forces (1900–02) in the Boer War and (1902–09) in India. He conducted the mobilization of the British army for World War I as war minister (1914–16); he was drowned on his way to Russia