Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.

    Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.

    the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat

  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A delicacy; a dainty.

  3. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Cooking tools or apparatus.

  4. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A place where cooking is done.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Recipes for chafing dish cookery abound.

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  2. My mum follows this cookery book closely whenever she cooks something.

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  3. Follow the cookery book.

    ruДелай всё по кулинарной книге.

    deHalte dich an das Kochbuch!

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  4. Creole cookery is rather spicy.

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  5. What's your favourite cookery book?

    deWas ist dein Lieblingskochbuch?

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.

From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.

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Forms

plural: cookeries
Singularcookery
Pluralcookeries

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
art of preparing food:culinary art
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedcook

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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