recipe
Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
Other meanings
A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
“His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.”
Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
Synonyms
- formula
Related words
- recipelike
- love recipe
- recipeless
- recipe book
- recipe box
- recipe dish
- recipe for disaster
- secret recipe
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "recipiō" (receive).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “recipe” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.