Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
chez
(chez)
Pronunciation:
/ʃeɪ/
preposition
at the home of (used in conscious imitation of French):
I spent one summer chez Grandma
Origin:
mid 18th century
: French
, from Old French
chiese
, from Latin
casa
'cottage'
Nearby Words
Chevy
chew
chew stick
chewing gum
chewy
Cheyenne
1
Cheyenne
2
Cheyenne River
Cheyne–Stokes breathing
chez
Chhattisgarh
chhi-chhi
chi
1
chi
2
chi-rho
chi-square test
chia
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiangmai