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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A book containing recipes and other information about the preparation of food.
  • noun A manual that describes how to assemble and deploy a biological or chemical weapon.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A book containing recipes and instructions for cooking.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun U.S. A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a book of recipes and cooking directions

Etymologies

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From cook + book; possibly also a calque from German Kochbuch (de), from kochen "cook" + Buch "book".

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