Cook
See also: cook
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
An occupational surname for a cook, or a seller of cooked food.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʊk/
Proper noun
Cook
- A surname, famously held by—
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, who mapped the coastline of New Zealand (1769) and the east coast of Australia (1770) and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.
- A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota
- A village in Nebraska
- A ghost town in South Australia
Derived terms
- Cook County
- Cook Islands
- Cook-Levin theorem
- Cook Peninsula
- Cook reduction
- Cook's theorem
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