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croquette

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • krō-kĕt'
  • /kɹoʊˈkɛt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • krŏ-kĕt'
  • /kɹɔˈkɛt/
  • rhymes with -ɛt

1

noun

Meaning 1

A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

Examples

  • chicken croquettes
  • crab croquettes

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dish

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution). Doublet of korokke.

Across languages

Translations

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Asturian: croqueta — food
  • Burmese: ကက်သလစ် (kaksa.lac) — food
  • Catalan: croqueta — food
  • Chinese Cantonese: 可樂餅 /可乐饼 (ho2 lok6 beng2) — food
  • Chinese Cantonese: 吉樂餅 /吉乐饼 (gat1 lok6 beng2) — food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 可樂餅 /可乐饼 (kělèbǐng) — food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 吉樂餅 /吉乐饼 (jílèbǐng) — food
  • Czech: kroketa — food
  • Dutch: kroket — food
  • Esperanto: fritbulo — food
  • Finnish: kuorukka — food
  • Finnish: kroketti — food
  • French: croquette — food
  • Galician: croqueta — food
  • German: Krokette — food
  • Hungarian: krokett — food
  • Indonesian: kroket — food
  • Irish: cróicéad — food
  • Italian: crocchetta — food
  • Japanese: クロケット (kuroketto) — food
  • Japanese: コロッケ (korokke) — food
  • Korean: 크로켓 (keuroket) — food
  • Korean: 고로케 (goroke) — food
  • Macedonian: кроке́т (krokét) — food
  • Polish: krokiet — food
  • Portuguese: croquete — food
  • Russian: кроке́т (krokét) — food
  • Russian: фрикаде́лька (frikadɛ́lʹka) — food
  • Spanish: croqueta — food
  • Swedish: krokett — food
  • Welsh: crimpen — food
  • Yiddish: קראָקעט (kroket) — food