cookery

C2 Topic:Actions & Processes

US /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/ See IPA manual

Freq #32006

Meanings

1

noun
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.
2

noun
A delicacy; a dainty.

I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
3

noun
Cooking tools or apparatus.

She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
4

noun
A place where cooking is done.

Mr. Weller produced upon the little dining-table, a roast leg of mutton and an enormous meat-pie, with sundry dishes of vegetables, and pots of porter, which stood upon the chairs or the sofa bedstead, or where they could, everybody felt disposed to do justice to the meal, notwithstanding that the meat had been purchased, and dressed, and the pie made, and baked, at the prison cookery hard by.

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Synonyms

1 noun · the art and practice of... cookingculinary art

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Phrases (1)

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cookery book
a book containing recipes and instructions for preparing food

Noun + noun

Etymology

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

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Actions & Processes Word Formation & Derivatives

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# cookery

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/
**Frequency rank:** 32006

## Meanings
1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
2. A delicacy; a dainty.
3. Cooking tools or apparatus.
4. A place where cooking is done.

## Examples
- Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
- I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
- She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
- Mr. Weller produced upon the little dining-table, a roast leg of mutton and an enormous meat-pie, with sundry dishes of vegetables, and pots of porter, which stood upon the chairs or the sofa bedstead, or where they could, everybody felt disposed to do justice to the meal, notwithstanding that the meat had been purchased, and dressed, and the pie made, and baked, at the prison cookery hard by.

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

## Topics
- Actions & Processes
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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