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9-letter words (1 found)

CROISSANT,

8-letter words (8 found)

ARSONIST,CANTORIS,CAROTINS,CISTRONS,CORNISTS,CORTINAS,NARCISTS,NARCOSIS,

7-letter words (36 found)

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6-letter words (100 found)

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5-letter words (178 found)

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4-letter words (159 found)

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3-letter words (79 found)

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2-letter words (21 found)

AI,AN,AR,AS,AT,IN,IO,IS,IT,NA,NO,OI,ON,OR,OS,SI,SO,ST,TA,TI,TO,

You can make 582 words from croissant according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of croissant

croissant

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant (“crescent”), present participle of croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescent.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: krə-säntʹ, krwa-säɴʹ , krwä-säɴʹ
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈk(ɹ)wæsɒ̃/, /ˈk(ɹ)wʌsɒ̃/, /ˈk(ɹ)wɑːsɒ̃/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kɹəˈsɑnt/, /k(ɹ)wɑˈsɑ̃/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /kɹəˈsɑnt/, /k(ɹ)waˈsɑ̃/, /kwə-/, /kɹə-/
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /kɹɘˈsɔnt/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /kɹəˈsɔnt/
  • Rhymes: (US, Canada) -ɑnt, (Australia, New Zealand) -ɔnt

Noun

croissant (plural croissants)

  1. A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
    Synonyms: crescent, crescent roll, kipfel
    Hypernym: viennoiserie

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • croissant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Carsonist, Crisantos, Nicastros, anticross, cast irons

Basque

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krwas̺an/ [krwa.s̺ãn]
  • Rhymes: -as̺an

Noun

croissant inan

  1. croissant

Declension

Further reading

  • "croissant" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [kɾu.əˈsan]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [kɾu.aˈsan]

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants)

  1. croissant

Derived terms

  • croissanteria

Czech

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkroasan]
  • IPA(key): [ˈkroasaːn]
  • Oblique cases use any of [ˈkroasaːnt-], [ˈkroasaːn-], [ˈkroasant-] or [ˈkroasan-].

Noun

croissant m inan

  1. croissant

Declension

Further reading

  • croissant in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krɑˈsɑnt/, /krɔˈsɑnt/, /krʋɑˈsɑnt/, [krʋɑˈsɑ̃], [krɑˈsɑ̃]
  • Hyphenation: crois‧sant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants, diminutive croissantje n)

  1. croissant

Derived terms

  • chocoladecroissant
  • kaascroissant

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: kroisan

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kruaˈsã/ (approximating the French pronunciation more or less closely)
  • IPA(key): /ˈkroɑsɑːn/, [ˈkro̞ɑ̝s̠ɑ̝ːn] (approximating the French pronunciation more or less closely)
  • IPA(key): /ˈkroi̯sːɑnt/, [ˈkro̞i̯s̠ːɑ̝n̪t̪] (following Finnish pronunciation rules)

Noun

croissant

  1. Synonym of voisarvi

Declension

References

Further reading

  • “croissant”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

Present participle of the verb croître (“to increase, to grow”). From Old French croisant, from earlier creissant, from Latin crēscentem, present active participle of crēscō (“to augment”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁwa.sɑ̃/

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants)

  1. crescent
  2. croissant
  3. crescent moon
    croissant de lune
  4. (heraldry) crescent

Derived terms

  • (croissant): croissandwich
  • (crescent): Croissant fertile

Descendants

  • → English: croissant
  • → German: Croissant
  • → Italian: croissant
  • → Malay: roti bulan sabit (calque)
  • → Turkish: kruvasan

Adjective

croissant (feminine croissante, masculine plural croissants, feminine plural croissantes)

  1. increasing, augmenting

Participle

croissant

  1. present participle of croître
  2. present participle of croitre

Further reading

  • “croissant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • castrions

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescente.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krwasˈsan/
  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

croissant m (usually invariable, plural croissants)

  1. croissant
    Synonyms: brioche, cornetto

Anagrams

  • contrassi, sanscrito, scontarsi, scornasti, stranisco, strascino, strascinò, troncassi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

Noun

croissant m (definite singular croissanten, indefinite plural croissanter, definite plural croissantene)

  1. a croissant

References

  • “croissant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

Noun

croissant m (definite singular croissanten, indefinite plural croissantar, definite plural croissantane)

  1. a croissant

References

  • "croissant" Lexin

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krwaˈsã/
  • Rhymes: -ɔsan
  • Syllabification: croi‧ssant

Noun

croissant m animal

  1. croissant (flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent)
    Synonym: (regional) rożek
    Hypernym: rogalik

Declension

Further reading

  • croissant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • croissant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • croissant in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • croassã

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescente.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants)

  1. (cooking) croissant (a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɾwaˈsan/ [kɾwaˈsãn]
  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants)

  1. Alternative form of cruasán

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krʊ.aˈsaŋ/

Noun

croissant c

  1. croissant

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org