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Crouton

Definition: Crouton

Crouton

Noun

1. A small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crouton" was first used: 1806. (references)

 

Crosswords: Crouton

Non-English Usage: "Crouton" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (crouton).

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Modern Usage: Crouton

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Next time you'll be a crouton, Crichton (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crouton

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crouton recipe

30

crouton

9

crouton couch

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Crouton

Language Translations for "crouton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

油煎方型小面包片. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ورقه نازک نان برشته یاسرخ شده . (various references)

   

French

  

croûton (croutons, crust). (various references)

   

German

  

crouton. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φρυγανιά σούπασ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קרוטון. (various references)

   

Italian

  

crostino (Savory, savoury, toast). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

クリプトコッカス症 (chloroform, Chloromycetin, claim, claimant, claimer, clay, clay court, clay pigeon, climograph, clinch, crane, crater, crazy, creatinine clearance, crepe, crepe shirt, crew, crimson, cross sign, cruise, cruiser, cruising, cryptococcosis, customer complaint, Krugerrand, krypton, Kurd, Kurdish). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

クルートン , クルトン . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

outoncray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cubinhos de pão torrado. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гренки в супе, гренок (sippet). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kruton, kockica prepečenog hleba. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuscurro. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kızarmış ekmek parçaları. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

грінка (toast). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Crouton

LanguagePeriodTranslations
French1500-Modern

crouton. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Crouton

Derivations

Words beginning with "crouton": croutons. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Crouton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: criton, croaton, crocuta, Cronton, crotoan, crotono, Crout, cruton, Cruxton, Kortunov, Kroutvor, Krutov, Rougon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Crouton

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: contour, cornuto.

Words within the letters "c-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-1 letter: croton, unroot.

-2 letters: conto, cornu, count, court, croon.

-3 letters: coon, coot, corn, curn, curt, onto, root, roto, rout, runt, toon, torc, torn, toro, tour, turn, unco, unto.

-4 letters: con, coo, cor, cot, cur, cut, noo, nor, not, nut, oot, orc, ort, our, out, roc, rot, run, rut, ton, too, tor, tun, urn.

-5 letters: no, nu.

 Words containing the letters "c-n-o-o-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: contours, cornutos, couranto, croutons, outscorn.

 

+2 letters: conductor, consultor, contoured, courantos, downcourt, outscorns, overcount, recontour.

 

+3 letters: conductors, consortium, consultors, contouring, corruption, counterion, countertop, courantoes, frontcourt, inoculator, moonstruck, neurotoxic, noncountry, outcrowing, outrocking, outscoring, outscorned, overcounts, production, recontours, undoctored.

 

+4 letters: aponeurotic, coauthoring, conjuration, consortiums, constructor, consummator, continuator, contrarious, contributor, conurbation, corrugation, corruptions, coruscation, coterminous, counterblow, countercoup, counterflow, counterfoil, counterions, countermemo, countermove, counterplot, counterploy, counterpose, countershot, countertops, frontcourts, inoculators, monoculture, mucoprotein, neurotropic, noncomputer, noncustomer, obscuration, obstruction, outcropping, outcrossing, outscorning, outsourcing, overcaution, overcounted, pococurante, procuration, productions, prosecution, recontoured.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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