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ramekin

/ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/

ramekin noun: a small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.

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Noun

ramekin (plural ramekins)

  1. A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
    • The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful.2023 July 15, Josh Noble, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
    • Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
  2. A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.

ramekin meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

ramekin in Tamil

அச்சுப்பண்ணியம்

ramekin in Indonesian

small dish for baking in oven
ramekin

Examples of ramekin in a sentence

  • Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.
  • A pie-size betty is traditional, but if you like, assemble the recipe in individual ovenproof ramekins.
  • You'll need four 2-cup ramekins or parfait dishes.

All 10 example sentences with ramekin

Forms of ramekin

pluralramekins
alternative formramequin

Origin of ramekin

Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”)) or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.

Questions about ramekin

What does ramekin mean?
Ramekin means a small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
What is ramekin in Tamil?
Ramekin in Tamil is அச்சுப்பண்ணியம். See Ramekin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ramekin?
Ramekin is a noun.
How do you pronounce ramekin?
Ramekin is pronounced /ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/.
What is the plural of ramekin?
The plural of ramekin is ramekins.

Words near ramekin in the dictionary

  1. ramed
  2. ramed over
  3. ramee
  4. ramees
  5. rameish
  6. ramekin
  7. ramekins
  8. ramelteon
  9. ramen
  10. ramen profitable
  11. ramen-ya

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ramekin (page history and authors); ramekin (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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