Standard Lemma guide

rusk

name · noun · 12 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

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɹʌsk/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Northern-England: /ɹʊsk/
  • rhymes with -ʌsk
  • CMU ARPABET: R AH1 S K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

An unincorporated community in Lost River Township, Martin County, Indiana.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Texas, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

name

Meaning 6

An unincorporated community in the town of Red Cedar, Dunn County, Wisconsin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

name

Meaning 7

A small town in Rusk County, Wisconsin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A rectangular, hard, dry biscuit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp; zwieback.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A weaning food for children.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A cereal binder used in meat product manufacture.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: zwieback, Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: toast

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese rosca (“a twist or roll of bread”)

Across languages

Translations

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: beskuit — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Arabic: شَابُورَة (šābūra) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Arabic: بُقْسُمَاط (buqsumāṭ) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Arabic: بَقْصُم (baqṣum) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Arabic: شابورة (šābūra) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Armenian: չորահաց (čʻorahacʻ) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Armenian: սուխարի (suxari) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Azerbaijani: suxarı — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Belarusian: суха́р (suxár) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Bulgarian: суха́р (suhár) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Catalan: bescuit — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Chinese Mandarin: 麵包乾 /麪包乾 /面包干 (miànbāogān) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Czech: suchar — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Danish: tvebak — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Danish: krydder — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Danish: skorpe — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Dutch: beschuit — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Dutch: scheepsbeschuit — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Esperanto: biskoto — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Esperanto: toasto — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Estonian: kuivik — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Finnish: korppu — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • French: biscotte — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • French: biscotin — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Galician: biscota — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Georgian: ორცხობილა (orcxobila) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • German: Zwieback — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Greek: παξιμάδι (paximádi) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Greek: φρυγανιά (fryganiá) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Ancient Greek: παξαμᾶς (paxamâs) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Hindi: रस्क (rask) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Hungarian: kétszersült — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Ido: biskoto — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Italian: biscotto — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Italian: fetta biscottata — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Japanese: ラスク (rasuku) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Kazakh: кепкен нан (kepken nan) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Korean: 러스크 (reoseukeu) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Kyrgyz: сухарь (suhar) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Latvian: sausiņi — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Lithuanian: džiūvėsis — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Lithuanian: džiūvėsėlis — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Macedonian: двопек (dvopek) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Macedonian: пексимид (peksimid) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Northern Mansi: суккари (sukkari) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kavring — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Iranian Persian: سوخاری (suxâri) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Iranian Persian: نانِ سوخاری (nân-e suxâri) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Polish: suchar — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Portuguese: torrada — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Russian: суха́рь (suxárʹ) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Russian: гале́та (galéta) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Serbo-Croatian: дво̀пек — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Serbo-Croatian: dvòpek — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Slovak: suchár — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Slovene: prepečenec — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Spanish: bizcocho — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Spanish: biscote — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Swedish: skorpa — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Turkish: peksimet — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Ukrainian: суха́р (suxár) — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Uzbek: suxari — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Vietnamese: bích cốt — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven
  • Vietnamese: bít cốt — light, soft bread, often toasted or crisped in an oven