A room or space, typically on a ship or in an institution, where cooking is done; a kitchen.
Compound of cook and room, a straightforward descriptive combination. Historically used in nautical contexts to describe the cooking area on ships, and in institutional settings like schools or hospitals.
Cookroom is the kind of practical, unsentimental British term you find in older texts—it's a reminder that words for spaces have changed as cooking moved from separate rooms to integrated kitchens, and as the word 'kitchen' itself became standard.
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