chefdom
nounEtymology From chef + -dom. Piecewise doublet of chiefdom.
1
Collectively, all chefs.
2
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: