CEFR B2

home-cooked

adjective

Meaning

home-cooked means alternative form of homecooked. [Cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.]. It can have more than one sense, so use the alternate meanings and examples to choose the meaning that matches your sentence.

Examples

The writer described the response as home-cooked.
A home-cooked tone can change the mood of a conversation.

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home-cooked (B2)

adjective

Definition

Examples

The writer described the response as home-cooked.
A home-cooked tone can change the mood of a conversation.
The situation became home-cooked after the announcement.

How to Use home-cooked

home-cooked + noun (collocation): Use home-cooked before a noun to describe that quality. — "The writer described a home-cooked reaction."
become home-cooked (collocation): Use after become, seem, or be for a state or quality. — "The discussion became home-cooked near the end."

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