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casserole

/ˈkæs.əˌɹoʊl/

casserole noun: a dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.

casserole: a dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served
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Noun

casserole (countable and uncountable, plural casseroles)

  1. (countable) A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
    Synonyms:
    casserole dish
  2. Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.
    • a chicken casserole
    Synonyms:
    hotpot
  3. (broadly) Any type of food that fills the high-walled dish or pan in which it was cooked.

Verb

casserole (third-person singular simple present casseroles, present participle casseroling, simple past and past participle casseroled)

  1. (transitive) To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew.
    • Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]1999, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 1999, Black Inc., →ISBN, page 16

casserole meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

casserole in Tamil

சூடுகாப்புக் கலன், புழுக்குத்தட்டம்

casserole in Marathi

कॅसरोल

casserole in Bengali

ক্যাসেরোল, ক্যাসেরল

casserole in Telugu

క్యాసెరోల్
More languagesFewer languages
casserole in Kannada
ಕ್ಯಾಸೆರೋಲ್, ಕ್ಯಾಸರೋಲ್
casserole in Punjabi
ਕੈਸਰੌਲ
casserole in Nepali
क्यासरोल, क्यासेरोल
casserole in Tagalog
kaserola
casserole in Arabic
كَسْرُول kasrūl, طَاجِن ṭājin

Examples of casserole in a sentence

  • The casserole was half-baked, but I choked it down anyway to be polite.
  • The casserole looked delicious, but Moishe wouldn't eat it because it was treyf.
  • I went to pick up the casserole when I realised it was still too hot to touch.

All 25 example sentences with casserole

Synonyms of casserole

Forms of casserole

Noun
pluralcasseroles
Verb
third-person singular presentcasseroles
present participlecasseroling
past participlecasseroled
pastcasseroled

Plural of casserole: casseroles

Origin of casserole

Borrowed from French casserole.

Words formed from casserole

Phrases with casserole

Questions about casserole

What does casserole mean?
Casserole means a dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
What is casserole in Tamil?
Casserole in Tamil is சூடுகாப்புக் கலன், புழுக்குத்தட்டம். See Casserole meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is casserole?
Casserole can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce casserole?
Casserole is pronounced /ˈkæs.əˌɹoʊl/.
What is the plural of casserole?
The plural of casserole is casseroles.

Words near casserole in the dictionary

  1. cassepanche
  2. Casserley
  3. Casserly
  4. Casserlys
  5. casserolade
  6. casserole
  7. casserole dish
  8. casserole dishes
  9. casseroled
  10. casseroles
  11. casseroling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: casserole (page history and authors); casserole (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); casserole (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casserole (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casserole (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casserole (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casserole (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casserole (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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