"cookery" meaning in English

See cookery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkʊkəɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cookery.wav Forms: cookeries [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cokerie}} Middle English cokerie, {{suf|en|cook|ery}} cook + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cookery (countable and uncountable, plural cookeries)
  1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: cooking Synonyms (art of preparing food): culinary art
    Sense id: en-cookery-en-noun-C0jRrc3g Disambiguation of 'art of preparing food': 83 1 9 8
  2. (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cookery-en-noun-k6~K7Qnd
  3. (archaic) Cooking tools or apparatus. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cookery-en-noun-EfDgTzth
  4. (archaic) A place where cooking is done. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cookery-en-noun-k5huscoL Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ery Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ery: 28 18 18 36
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cookery book
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: cookeries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cookery (plural cookeries)
  1. Obsolete form of kukri. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: kukri
    Sense id: en-cookery-en-noun-0YQVor1T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 5 9 9 68 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 3 11 7 69 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 3 6 6 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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