Meaning

2 senses
  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.

    Kochbuch, Rezeptbuch

    пова́ренная кни́гаpovárennaja kníga, кулинарная книгаkulinarnaja kniga

    куліна́рна кни́гаkulinárna knýha

    a book of recipes and cooking directions

  2. (broadly, figuratively)Any book or set of strategies and tips.

    Near-synonym: playbook

    The Anarchist Cookbook

Examples

48 sentences
  1. Tom has been writing a cookbook.

  2. Tom has begun writing a cookbook.

    ruТом начал писать поваренную книгу. — odexed

  3. How many cookbooks do you have?

  4. How many cookbooks have you published?

  5. Are you working on a new cookbook?

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
book of cooking recipes:
Русский
By meaning 1
book of cooking recipes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
book of cooking recipes:

Origin

From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (

From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).

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Forms

plural: cookbooks

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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