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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
crust /krʌst/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Foodthe brown, hard outer surface of a loaf of bread.
  2. Fooda slice of bread from the end of the loaf.
  3. Foodthe pastry containing the filling of a pie or other dish.
    • any hard outer covering or coating, as of ice or snow.
    • [usually singular] the outer layer of the earth:The earth's crust is about 22 mi. (35 km) deep under the continents and 6 mi. (10 km) deep under the oceans.

v. [~ + object]
  1. to cover with a crust:The road was crusted with snow and ice.
crust•al, adj.: the earth's crustal plates.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
crust  (krust),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Foodthe brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
  2. Fooda slice of bread from the end of a loaf, consisting chiefly of this.
  3. Foodthe pastry covering the outside of a pie or other dish.
  4. a piece of stale bread.
  5. any more or less hard external covering or coating:a crust of snow.
  6. Geologythe outer layer of the earth, about 22 mi. (35 km) deep under the continents and 6 mi. (10 km) deep under the oceans. Cf. mantle (def. 3), core 1 (def. 10).
  7. a scab or eschar.
  8. Slang Termsunabashed self-assertiveness;
    nerve;
    gall:He had a lot of crust going to the party without an invitation.
  9. Winedeposit from wine, as it ripens during aging, on the interior of bottles, consisting of tartar and coloring matter.
  10. Invertebratesthe hard outer shell or covering of an animal.
  11. British Terms[Australian Slang.]a living or livelihood:What do you do for a crust?

v.t. 
  1. to cover with or as with a crust;
    encrust.
  2. to form (something) into a crust.

v.i. 
  1. to form or contract a crust.
  2. to form into a crust.
  • Latin crusta hard coating, crust
  • Anglo-French, Old French cruste, croste
  • Middle English 1275–1325
crust′less, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
crust /krʌst/ n
    • the hard outer part of bread
    • a piece of bread consisting mainly of this
  2. the baked shell of a pie, tart, etc
  3. any hard or stiff outer covering or surface: a crust of ice
  4. the solid outer shell of the earth, with an average thickness of 30–35 km in continental regions and 5 km beneath the oceans, forming the upper part of the lithosphere and lying immediately above the mantle, from which it is separated by the Mohorovičić discontinuity
  5. the dry covering of a skin sore or lesion; scab
  6. slang impertinence
  7. Brit Austral NZ slang a living (esp in the phrase earn a crust)
 vb
  1. to cover with or acquire a crust
  2. to form or be formed into a crust
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin crūsta hard surface, rind, shell
'crust' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Collocations: the [pizza, bread, pie] crust, the [bacon, pork, meat] crust, cut the crust off her sandwich, more...

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