cookbook
A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tipsA book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
» Tom has been writing a cookbook.
Meaning
2 sensesA 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
(broadly, figuratively)Any book or set of strategies and tips.
Near-synonym: playbook
The Anarchist Cookbook
Examples
48 sentencesTom has been writing a cookbook.
Tom has begun writing a cookbook.
ruТом начал писать поваренную книгу. — odexed
How many cookbooks do you have?
How many cookbooks have you published?
Are you working on a new cookbook?
Translations
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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: cookbooksSynonyms
3 synonyms- a book of recipes and cooking directions:cookery book