English noun: cookie |
1. | cookie (food) any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) |
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| Synonyms | biscuit, cooky |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cake |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | almond cookie, almond crescent, anise cookie, brownie, butter cookie, chocolate chip cookie, dog biscuit, fortune cookie, fruit bar, ginger nut, ginger snap, gingerbread man, gingersnap, granola bar, kiss, ladyfinger, macaroon, molasses cookie, oatmeal cookie, oreo, oreo cookie, raisin cookie, raisin-nut cookie, refrigerator cookie, snap, spice cookie, sugar cookie, tea biscuit, teacake, Toll House cookie, wafer |
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| Domain region | Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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2. | cookie (person) the cook on a ranch or at a camp |
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| Synonyms | cooky |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cook |
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3. | cookie (communication) a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site |
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| Broader (hypernym) | text, textual matter |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | precision cookie, session cookie |
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