Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A book containing recipes and other information about the preparation of food.
- n. A manual that describes how to assemble and deploy a biological or chemical weapon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A book containing recipes and instructions for cooking.
Wiktionary
- n. A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. U.S. A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a book of recipes and cooking directions
Etymologies
- From cook + book; possibly also a calque from German Kochbuch (de), from kochen "cook" + Buch "book". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This cookbook is a great resource for these fruit desserts because it seems to cover all of them.”
Rustic Fruit Desserts: Crumbles, Buckles, Cobblers, Pandowdies, and More | Baking Bites
“I think creating a cookbook is a great resolution.”
“Your cookbook is at the top of my Christmas list this year.”
“For bakers and cooks, or those who are reasonably likely to spend some time in the kitchen, a cookbook is a great and easy to find gift idea.”
“For people who are trying to cope, medication-free, without dairy products in their diet, this cookbook is an essential purchase.”
“This cookbook is the one item my parents own that both my sister and I have adamantly laid claim to.”
“For me, buying a cookbook is at times a difficult endeavour.”
“This cookbook is a collection of family, personal and regional recipes that Ms. Rawlings liked to cook, and she was apparently a very good cook indeed.”
“The cookbook is divided up into chapters by type and stars out with chocolate chip cookies, including recipes like Toffee Chip Snickerdoodles alongside more classic sounding cookies.”
“The cookbook is dedicated to cake recipes of all kinds, and each recipe is lower in calories than the “regular” versions and none of them have more than 10 grams of fat per serving.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cookbook’.
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Book Keeping
A collection of book words.
bookkeeping, book, audio book, Booker T. Washington, Booker T. & the M..., book club, bookie, bookseller, bookshelf, bookworm, bookmaker, book learning and 132 more...
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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O
monovocalic with 'o' but ONLY if I like them :-)
potoroo, woolloomoolloo, polo, booboo, morocco, pomology, mofongo, bloodroot, foolproof, bonobo, oboe, colocolo and 20 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir One of my favorite cookbooks is Copeland Marks' tome Sephardic Cooking. Mar 23, 2011