Meanings
plural ramekins · alternative ramequin
- cookingA small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.
2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31 more example
The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful.
2023 July 15, Josh Noble, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes
nouna small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Low Germanramken“cream”
- Dutchrammeken“cheese dish”
- Frenchramequin
- Englishramekin
Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”)) or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.
More words from French, Dutch, Low German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian рамеки́н, гювече́
- рамеки́н (ramekín)small dish for baking in oven
- гювече́ (gjuvečé)small dish for baking in oven
- гювече́ (gjuvečé)cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold
Dutch ovenschaaltje
- ovenschaaltjesmall dish for baking in oven
Finnish annosvuoka
- annosvuokasmall dish for baking in oven
French ramequin
- ramequinsmall dish for baking in oven
German Soufflé-Förmchen, Auflaufförmchen
- Soufflé-Förmchensmall dish for baking in oven
- Auflaufförmchensmall dish for baking in oven
Indonesian ramekin
- ramekinsmall dish for baking in oven
Italian pirottino
- pirottinosmall dish for baking in oven
Japanese ラムカン, ラムキン
- ラムカン (ramukan)small dish for baking in oven
- ラムキン (ramukin)small dish for baking in oven
Lithuanian ramekinas
- ramekinassmall dish for baking in oven
Māori tapoti
- tapotismall dish for baking in oven
Polish kokilka, zapiekanka
- kokilkasmall dish for baking in oven
- zapiekankacheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold
Russian рамеки́н
- рамеки́н (ramekín)small dish for baking in oven
Swedish portionsform
- portionsformsmall dish for baking in oven
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Cite this entry
ramekin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ramekin
“ramekin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ramekin. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ramekin,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ramekin.
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