Meaning

8 senses
  1. A person who prepares food.

    I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.

    Koch, Köchin

    по́варpóvar, повари́хаpovaríxa, кокkok

    ку́харkúxar, ку́харка f/куха́ркаkúxarka

    someone who cooks food

  2. The head cook of a manor house.

  3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

  4. The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.

  5. (slang)One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

    Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.

  6. (slang)A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

  7. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

  8. An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

Examples

3477 sentences
  1. Is your wife a good cook?

    Твоя дружина добре готує? — deniko

    ruТвоя жена хорошо готовит? — afyodor

    deIst deine Frau eine gute Köchin? — Sudajaengi

  2. This is how I cook fish.

    Ось як я готую рибу. — Anjy

    ruВот как я готовлю рыбу. — Biga

  3. You must be a good cook.

    Ти, мабуть, добрий кухар. — deniko

    ruТы, должно быть, хороший повар. — phenne

  4. Her daughter is bad at cooking.

    Її дочка погано готує. — deniko

    ruЕё дочь плохо готовит. — marafon

    deIhre Tochter kann nicht kochen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Her husband is an excellent cook.

    Її чоловік чудовий повар. — Internecivus

    ruЕё муж превосходный повар. — paul_lingvo

    deIhr Mann ist ein hervorragender Koch. — Zaghawa

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person who prepares food:
Русский
By meaning 1
person who prepares food:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person who prepares food:

Origin

From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately fr

From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).

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Forms

plural: cooks
Singularcook
Pluralcooks

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

37 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • cook dinner
  • a good cook
  • good at cooking
  • how to cook
  • better better cook
  • good cook
  • better cook than
  • cook chinese food
  • cook dinner for
  • very good cook
  • to cook dinner
  • to cook chinese

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cook — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto