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recipe book

recipe book is the alternative form of cookbook.

Meaning of cookbook

Noun

cookbook (plural cookbooks)

  1. 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.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Any book or set of strategies and tips.
    • Near-synonym: playbook
    Synonyms:
    playbook

Forms of recipe book

pluralrecipe books

Questions about recipe book

What is recipe book the alternative form of?
Recipe book is the alternative form of cookbook.

Words near recipe book in the dictionary

  1. Recinoses
  2. Recio
  3. Recios
  4. recip.
  5. recipe
  6. recipe book
  7. recipe books
  8. recipe box
  9. recipe boxes
  10. recipe dish
  11. recipe dishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recipe book (page history and authors); cookbook (page history and authors). 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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