Cook

cook English thumb|Captain James Cook Etymology From en cook. en Koch Kok. Pronunciation en /kʊk/ en en-us-cook.ogg Audio (US) en en-au-cook.ogg Audio (AU) en /kuːk/ some speakers from Northern England and Ireland en /kʉk/ Scotland,NI en cuck most accents <<non-foot-strut split>> en ʊk 1 Proper noun ~ en countable en English occupations _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. en Children aged 5, 8 and 11 killed in US school shooting before suspect shot by bystander Rebecka Pieder;Parul Gupta;Ben Hatton w:BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm89zp48k4kzo 2026-10-16 "We are stunned and heartbroken by this senseless tragedy," Steven Cook, the top administrative official of the local school district, said in a statement. https://web.archive.org/web/20261016080951/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm89zp48k4kzo A placename: en locale c/US: en twp co/Sac County s/Iowa. en twp co/Decatur County s/Kansas. en minor city co/Saint Louis County s/Minnesota ; named for railroad official Wirth Cook. en village co/Johnson County s/Nebraska ; named for landowner Andrew Cook. en ucomm twp:Suf/Madison co/Fayette County s/Ohio ; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook. en twp co/Westmoreland County s/Pennsylvania. en suburb city/Canberra terr/Australian Capital Territory c/Australia ; named for James Cook. en lgarea in Far North s/Queensland c/Australia the Shire of Cook. en ghost town s/South Australia c/Australia ; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia. en river dist/Westland r/West Coast c/New Zealand. en Weheka en electoral division city/Sydney state/New South Wales c/Australia. Alternative forms surname en Cooke Coke Derived terms en Cook County Cook Inlet Cook Islands Cook Peninsula Cook reduction Cook Strait Cook's Green Cook's theorem Cook's tour Cook-Levin theorem Cookian Cooks Gap Cooks Hill Cooks Myalls Point Cook Weiss-Cook reaction See also en Cox Further reading Cook (surname) en surnames from common nouns en Individuals