Usually means: Preparation and cooking of food.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word cookery:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. cookery: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cookery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cookery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cookery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cookery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cookery, cookery: Wordnik
  7. cookery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cookery: Wiktionary
  9. cookery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cookery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cookery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cookery, cookery: Dictionary.com
  13. Cookery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cookery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cookery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cookery: Rhymezone
  17. Cookery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cookery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. cookery: Free Dictionary
  20. cookery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cookery: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cookery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cookery: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
noun:  (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
noun:  (archaic) Cooking tools or apparatus.
noun:  (archaic) A place where cooking is done.
noun:  Obsolete form of kukri. [A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters; many variants exist, but all share recurve as a common theme.]

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