chefdom en · NOUN
Etymology
From chef + -dom. Piecewise doublet of chiefdom.
Meanings
- (uncountable) Collectively, all chefs.
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(uncountable) The state of being a chef.
Still they keep coming, perhaps spurred on by the celebrity status that chefdom has achieved in the past decade.
2009 February 26, Corey Mintz, “Prepping for a culinary career”, in Toronto Star: