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Definition: Crouton |
CroutonNoun1. 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Next time you'll be a crouton, Crichton (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crouton recipe | 30 |
crouton | 9 |
crouton couch | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | crouton. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crouton": croutons. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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| 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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