cookbook
UK/ˈkʊkˌbʊk/
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British/ˈkɵkˌbɵk/
cookbook noun: a book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
Noun
cookbook (plural cookbooks)
- A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
- They inherited an interesting nineteenth-century cookbook from their grandparents. It tells how to render lard.
- Synonyms:
- cookery book, recipe book
- Any book or set of strategies and tips.
- Near-synonym: playbook
- The Anarchist Cookbook
- Synonyms:
- playbook
cookbook meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
cookbook in Hindi
- book of cooking recipes
- पाक कला पुस्तक pāk kalā pustak
cookbook in Tamil
- சமையல் புத்தகம்
cookbook in Marathi
- स्वयंपाकपुस्तिका
cookbook in Bengali
- পাকপ্রণালীর বই
More languagesFewer languages
- cookbook in Malayalam
- പാചകപുസ്തകം pācakapustakaṁ
- cookbook in Kannada
- ಅಡುಗೆಪುಸ್ತಕ aḍugepustaka
- cookbook in Punjabi
- ਰਸੋਈ ਦੀ ਕਿਤਾਬ
- cookbook in Odia
- ରୋଷେଇ ପୁସ୍ତକ
- cookbook in Arabic
- كِتَاب طَبْخ kitāb ṭabḵ
- cookbook in Malay
- buku masakan
- cookbook in Indonesian
- buku masak
- cookbook in Persian
- کتاب آشپزی
- cookbook in Thai
- ตำราอาหาร dtam-raa-aa-hǎan
Examples of cookbook in a sentence
- She blew the dust off the cookbook, revealing its full title.
- Her book is less a cookbook than a meditation on the craft of cookery.
- The celebrity tell-all has been proposed as a frontlist title, whereas the cookbook has been proposed as a backlist title and the food history book as a midlist title.
Synonyms of cookbook
Forms of cookbook
| plural | cookbooks |
|---|---|
| alternative form | cook book |
Origin of cookbook
From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).
Words formed from cookbook
- cookbookery
- cookbookish
- cookbooklet
Words that rhyme with cookbook
Questions about cookbook
- What does cookbook mean?
- Cookbook means a book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
- What is cookbook in Hindi?
- Cookbook in Hindi is पाक कला पुस्तक (pāk kalā pustak). See Cookbook meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cookbook?
- Cookbook is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cookbook?
- Cookbook is pronounced /ˈkʊkˌbʊk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cookbook?
- The plural of cookbook is cookbooks.
Words near cookbook in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cookbook (page history and authors); cookbook (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cookbook (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cookbook (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cookbook (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cookbook (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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