name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
custard
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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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkʌs.təd/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈkʌs.tɚd/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈkɐs.təd/
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rhymes with -ʌstə(ɹ)d
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CMU ARPABET: K AH1 S T ER0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert; egg custard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A similar sauce made from milk and cornflour or custard powder (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dish
Narrower terms: creme caramel, creme anglais, creme brulee, fruit custard, Bavarian cream
History
Etymology
Alteration of croustade.
Across languages
Translations
68 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: vla — sauce
- Arabic: كَاسْتَرْد (kāstard) — sauce
- Assamese: কাষ্টাৰ (kastar) — sauce
- Belarusian: заварны́ крэм (zavarný krem) — sauce
- Bulgarian: крем караме́л (krem karamél) — sauce
- Catalan: crema — sauce
- Chinese Cantonese: 吉士 — sauce
- Chinese Cantonese: 吉士醬 /吉士酱 — sauce
- Chinese Cantonese: 奶黃 /奶黄 (naai5 wong4) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 卡士達 /卡士达 (kǎshìdá) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 吉士 (jíshì) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 奶油凍 /奶油冻 (nǎiyóudòng) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 乳蛋糕 (rǔdàngāo) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 奶黃 /奶黄 (nǎihuáng) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 蛋羹 (dàngēng) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 軟凍 /软冻 (ruǎndòng) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 牛奶沙司 (niúnǎi shāsī) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 蛋漿 /蛋浆 (dànjiāng) — sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 蛋奶凍 /蛋奶冻 (dànnǎidòng) — sauce
- Czech: pudink — sauce
- Dutch: vla — sauce
- Dutch: banketbakkersroom — sauce
- Dutch: vanillesaus — sauce
- Esperanto: kremaĵo — sauce
- Esperanto: kustardo — sauce
- Finnish: maitokiisseli — sauce
- Finnish: vanukas — sauce
- French: crème anglaise — sauce
- French: crème pâtissière — sauce
- French: custard — sauce
- Galician: crema — sauce
- German: Vanillesoße — sauce
- German: Pudding — sauce
- German: Creme — sauce
- German: Puddingcreme — sauce
- German: Eiercreme — sauce
- Hebrew: רַפְרֶפֶת (rafréfet) — sauce
- Hebrew: חֲבִיצָה (ḥavitzá) — sauce
- Hungarian: sodó — sauce
- Indonesian: kustar — sauce
- Irish: custard — sauce
- Italian: crema pasticcera — sauce
- Japanese: カスタード (kasutādo) — sauce
- Korean: 커스터드 (keoseuteodeu) — sauce
- Latvian: olu krēms — sauce
- Malay: kastard — sauce
- Māori: kahitete — sauce
- Māori: kātete — sauce
- Norwegian Bokmål: vaniljesaus — sauce
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vaniljesaus — sauce
- Persian: کاستارد (kâstârd) — sauce
- Persian: شیرخاگین (šir-xâgin) — sauce
- Polish: custard — sauce
- Polish: sos angielski — sauce
- Portuguese: creme inglês — sauce
- Romanian: cremă — sauce
- Russian: заварно́й крем (zavarnój krem) — sauce
- Russian: ка́стард (kástard) — sauce
- Spanish: crema pastelera — sauce
- Spanish: natilla — sauce
- Swedish: vaniljkräm — sauce
- Swedish: vaniljsås — sauce
- Ukrainian: заварни́й крем (zavarnýj krem) — sauce
- Vietnamese: sữa trứng — sauce
- Vietnamese: kem sữa trứng — sauce
- Vietnamese: món sữa trứng — sauce
- Welsh: cwstard — sauce
- Yiddish: קאָסטאַרד (kostard) — sauce
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