Meanings
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1
noun
A large kitchen appliance used for cooking food, with an oven and burners on top.
She put the soup on the cooker to warm it up.
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2
noun
An apple that is meant for cooking rather than eating raw.
Bramleys are a popular cooker for making apple pie.
Thesaurus
Word family
Forms
cookers
Derived forms
cookeressmulticookerpressure-cookerself-cooker
Etymology
From cook + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (apple; one who is cooked).