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casserole

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈkæs.əˌɹoʊl//

A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.

noun

  1. 1

    A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.

  2. 2

    Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.

    a chicken casserole

  3. 3

    Any type of food that fills the high-walled dish or pan in which it was cooked.

Etymology

Borrowed from French casserole.

verb

  1. 1

    To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew.

    Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]

Forms

plural
casseroles
past tense
casseroled
past participle
casseroled
present participle
casseroling
third person singular
casseroles
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).