cookbook
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cookbook
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
While looking over the proofs for her latest cookbook, she picked up a marker and drew a mermaid.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Now, success in cakemaking is packaged right along with the precision ingredients,” author Myrna Johnston wrote in her 1953 cookbook, “Better Homes & Gardens.”
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
When did you last buy a hardback and what was it – a cookbook, a coffee table book or fiction?
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
On a recent morning, Nones took photos for a cookbook, shooting portraits of residents who submitted recipes for Romanian stuffed cabbage and gumbo, coaching them from his chair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
I read through the application and rules for applying as I imagined myself on the cover of my own cookbook.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
“They tucked them into purses, filing cabinets, cookbooks and memory boxes because they believed they would be valuable someday. We think they were right.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
"Ultimately, the recipe has to be good – there are some really awful ones," she says, referencing strange combinations she has seen in cookbooks, including banana and herring and lamb and crab.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Deighton’s illustrated “cookstrips” in London newspapers encouraged British men to cook and were collected into cookbooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
While this stretch can feel gray and suspended, the cookbooks tell a different story.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026
“Well, God give y’all cookbooks for thet. Anyhow, when I got to ponderin’ on it last night, the word ast commenced to jump at me like sheep comin' over a fence.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
