head chef

English

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Noun

head chef (plural head chefs)

1. The main chef in a restaurant, in charge of the kitchen and of the team of other chefs.

   Synonyms: master chef, executive chef

   Hypernyms: chef, cook

   Coordinate terms: sous-chef, subchef, underchef, subcook, undercook, chef de partie, station chef, line cook; chief cook and bottle washer

Translations

main chef

Chinese: Mandarin: 主廚 / 主厨 (zh) (zhǔchú) Finnish: pääkokki, keittiömestari (fi) German: Chefkoch (de) m, Küchenchef (de) m Portuguese: chef (pt) m or f, chef principal m or f Swedish: köksmästare (sv) Vietnamese: bếp trưởng