cook

1. 1.

   someone who cooks food

   Broaderskilled worker

   Narrowerchefcookiefry cookpreserverroasterseasonerFarmer
2. 2.

   English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

   SynonymsJames CookCaptain CookCaptain James Cook

   Broadernavigator

Other forms of cook

plural

cooks·

past tense

cooked·

present participle

cooking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cook

What does cook mean?

cook means "prepare a hot meal". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cook?

cook has 1 syllable: cook. In IPA it is /ˈkʊk/.

What is another word for cook?

Close synonyms include fix, ready, make, prepare, fudge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cook a common word?

cook is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cook?

4 words rhyme with cook. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.