croissant
Syllables: crois·sant/ˈk(ɹ)wæsɒ̃//kɹəˈsɑnt/
croissant noun: a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
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Noun
croissant (plural croissants)
- A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
- By my side was the empty bowl in which the concierge had brought me my café au lait and the fragment of croissant which I had not had appetite enough to eat. I heard the concierge in the next room emptying my bath.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXIV, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 175
- Synonyms:
- crescent, crescent roll
croissant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Arabic
croissant in Hindi
- a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent
- क्रोइसैन kroisain
croissant in Tamil
- பிறை
croissant in Urdu
- a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent
- کروسنٹ krosanṭ
croissant in Arabic
- a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent
- كْرُوَاسَّان kruwāssān, كْرُوَاسُّون kruwāssūn
More languagesFewer languages
- croissant in Malay
- roti bulan sabit, roti tanduk
- croissant in Indonesian
- roti bulan sabit, roti sabit, kroisan
- croissant in Persian
- کرواسان koroasã
- croissant in Thai
- ครัวซ็อง kruua-sɔng
- croissant in Vietnamese
- bánh sừng bò, bánh con cua, bánh croa-xăng
Examples of croissant in a sentence
- Another stall there, Mama, does croissant taiyakis, fish-shaped pastries with a choice of custardy fillings.
- A croiffle is basically a croissant baked using a waffle maker, which explains its texture and shape.
- I got you a sausage, egg and cheese croissant because I’m not sharing my Ponchiks with you.”
Synonyms of croissant
Forms of croissant
| plural | croissants |
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Origin of croissant
Unadapted borrowing from French croissant (“crescent”), present participle of croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescent.
Words formed from croissant
Questions about croissant
- What does croissant mean?
- Croissant means a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
- What is croissant in Hindi?
- Croissant in Hindi is क्रोइसैन (kroisain). See Croissant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is croissant?
- Croissant is a noun.
- How do you pronounce croissant?
- Croissant is pronounced /ˈk(ɹ)wæsɒ̃/ (UK).
- What is the plural of croissant?
- The plural of croissant is croissants.
Words near croissant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: croissant (page history and authors); croissant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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