Cook

See also: cook

English

Captain James Cook

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊk/

Proper noun

Cook

1. for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.
2. A locale in the United States.
   1. A city in Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook.
   2. A village in Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook.
   3. An unincorporated community in Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook.
3. A suburb of Canberra, Australia; named for James Cook.
4. A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
5. A river in New Zealand.

   Synonym: Weheka

Alternative forms

• (surname): Cooke, Coke

Derived terms

• Cook County
• Cook Islands
• Cook-Levin theorem
• Cook Peninsula
• Cook reduction
• Cook's theorem

 

Further reading

• “Cook”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Cook (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia