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recipe

noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛsɪpi/
  • British, Canada, General-American, Southern, Standard: /ˈɹɛsɪpi/
  • British, Canada, General-American, Southern, Standard: /ˈɹɛsəpi/
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈɹesəpi/
  • Scotland: /ˈɾɛsɪpe/
  • Scotland: /-pɪ/
  • Scotland: /-pi/
  • Wales: /ˈɾɛsɪpi/
  • CMU ARPABET: R EH1 S AH0 P IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Examples

  • His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Stepper recipes.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

directions for making something

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: formula

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: direction, instruction

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”).

Across languages

Translations

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: resep — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Albanian: recetë — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Arabic: وَصْفَة (waṣfa) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Armenian: բաղադրատոմս (baġadratoms) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Asturian: receta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Azerbaijani: resept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Belarusian: рэцэ́пт (recépt) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Bengali: রন্ধনশৈলী (rondhonśōili) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Bengali: রেসিপি (reśipi) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Bulgarian: реце́пта (recépta) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Catalan: recepta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Chinese Cantonese: 食譜 /食谱 (sik6 pou2) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Chinese Mandarin: 烹飪法 /烹饪法 (pēngrènfǎ) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Chinese Mandarin: 烹調法 /烹调法 (pēngtiáofǎ) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Chinese Mandarin: 食譜 /食谱 (shípǔ) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Cornish: receyt — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Czech: recept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Danish: recept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Danish: opskrift — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Dhivehi: ރެސިޕީ (resipī) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Dutch: recept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Esperanto: recepto — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Estonian: retsept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Finnish: resepti — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Finnish: ruokaresepti — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • French: recette — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Friulian: ricete — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Friulian: rècipe — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Galician: receita — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Georgian: რეცეპტი (receṗṭi) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • German: Rezept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • German: Kochrezept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • German: Backrezept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Greek: συνταγή (syntagí) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Hebrew: מַתְכּוֹן (matkón) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Hebrew: רֶצֶפְּט (retsépt) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Hindi: रेसिपी (resipī) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Hindi: पकवान विधि (pakvān vidhi) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Hungarian: recept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Icelandic: uppskrift — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Ido: recepto — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Indonesian: resep — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Interlingua: recepta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Irish: oideas — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Italian: ricetta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Japanese: 作り方 (tsukurikata) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Japanese: 調理法 (chōrihō) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Japanese: レシピ (reshipi) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Japanese: 調理手順 (chōri tejun) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Japanese: 料理法 (ryōrihō) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Kazakh: ресеп (resep) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Khmer: សូទសាស្ត្រ (soutĕəʼ saah) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Korean: 처방 (cheobang) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Korean: 조리법 (joribeop) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Korean: 레시피 (resipi) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Korean: 요리법 (yoribeop) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Korean: 료리법 (ryoribeop) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Kyrgyz: рецепт (retsept) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Ladino: recheta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Latin: praeceptum — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Latvian: recepte — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Lithuanian: receptas — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Macedonian: реце́пт (recépt) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Malay: resipi — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Malay: resepi — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Malayalam: പാചകവിധി (pācakavidhi) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Maltese: riċetta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Māori: tohutohu tao kai — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Māori: tohutao — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Māori: tohutaka — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Mongolian: жор (žor) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Mongolian: хоолны жор (xoolny žor) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Norman: èrchette — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Norwegian Bokmål: oppskrift — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Iranian Persian: دَسْتورِ غَذاء (dastur-e ġazâ') — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Iranian Persian: دَسْتورِ غِذاء (dastur-e ġezâ') — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Iranian Persian: دَسْتورِ پُخْت (dastur-e poxt) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Plautdietsch: Rezapt — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Polish: przepis — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Portuguese: receita — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Romanian: rețetă — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Russian: реце́пт (recépt) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Scottish Gaelic: reasabaidh — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Serbo-Croatian: рѐцепт — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Serbo-Croatian: rècept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Slovak: recept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Slovene: recept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Spanish: receta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Swedish: recept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Tagalog: resipi — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Tajik: ресепт (resept) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Tajik: дастуруламал (dasturulamal) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Tajik: дастур (dastur) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Tatar: рецепт (retsept) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Thai: สูตร (sùut) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Tokelauan: faiga o te meakai — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Turkish: yemek tarifi — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Turkish: tarif — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Turkmen: resept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Ukrainian: реце́пт (recépt) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Urdu: تَرْکِیب (tarkīb) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Uyghur: رېتسېپ (rëtsëp) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Uzbek: retsept — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Venetan: receta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Venetan: riseta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Venetan: rizheta — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Venetan: rèpise — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Venetan: rèpese — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Vietnamese: công thức — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Vietnamese: công thức nấu ăn — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Volapük: rezäp — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Welsh: rysáit — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Yiddish: רעצעפּט (retsept) — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Zulu: isu — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Zulu: iresiphi — instructions for making or preparing food dishes
  • Bengali: রেসিপি (reśipi) — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
  • Bulgarian: спо́соб (spósob) — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
  • German: Rezept — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
  • Polish: recepta — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
  • Polish: przepis — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
  • Russian: реце́пт (recépt) — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
  • Russian: спо́соб (spósob) — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
  • Russian: ме́тод (métod) — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
  • Spanish: receta — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
  • Ukrainian: реце́пт (recépt) — plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
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