English Explanatory Dictionary

crust

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
  2. The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
  3. An outer layer composed of pastry
  4. The bread-like base of a pizza.
  5. A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
  6. The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
  7. The outermost layer of the lithosphere of any terrestrial planet.
  8. The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
  9. A living.
  10. Nerve, gall.
  11. The head.
  12. Ellipsis of crust punk, a subgenre of punk music.
verb
  1. To cover with a crust.
  2. To form a crust.

Pronunciation

/kɹʌst/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crust.wav /kɹʊst/

Word forms

crust crusts crusting crusted

Etymology

From Middle English cruste, from Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old English hruse (“earth”), Old High German hrosa (“crust, ice”), Latvian kruvesis (“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬎𐬰𐬛𐬭𐬀- (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रूड् (krūḍ, “thicken, make hard”). Doublet of crusta.

Synonyms

heel daily bread income livelihood

Related words

custard croustade crouton crusted crusty encrust

Derived words

biocrust blackened crust bleeding oak crust breadcrust continental crust crack a crust cradle crust cruft crustache crustal crustation crustcore crusted crustless crustlike crustquake decrust earn a crust earn one's crust gypcrust kissing-crust milk crust oceanic crust overcrust pie crust pie crust collar pie crust lease shortcrust thick-crust pizza thin-crust pizza upper crust

Translations

Albanian: kore Arabic: قِشْرَة Armenian: երկրակեղեւ Bashkir: ҡыртыш Belarusian: кара́ Bulgarian: кора́ Catalan: escorça Chinese Mandarin: 地殼 /地壳 Czech: kůra Danish: skorpe Dutch: korst Esperanto: terkrusto Finnish: kuori French: croûte French: écorce Galician: codia Galician: cortiza Georgian: ქერქი German: Kruste Greek: φλοιός Hindi: भूपर्पटी Hindi: पर्पटी Hungarian: köpeny Hungarian: földkéreg Ido: krusto Irish: screamh Italian: crosta Japanese: 地殻 Korean: 지각 Lao: ຜິວໂລກ Macedonian: кора Manx: bleayst Māori: kirinuku Norwegian Bokmål: skorpe Norwegian Bokmål: jordskorpe Norwegian Nynorsk: skorpe Norwegian Nynorsk: jordskorpe Iranian Persian: پوسْتِه Plautdietsch: Ieedkjarscht Polish: skorupa Portuguese: crosta Romanian: crustă Russian: кора́ Serbo-Croatian: ко̏ра Serbo-Croatian: kȍra Slovak: kôra Slovene: skorja
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