crescent roll

1. 1.

   very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll

   Synonymscroissant

   Broaderbun

Questions about crescent roll

What does crescent roll mean?

crescent roll means "very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll".

What is another word for crescent roll?

Close synonyms include croissant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crescent roll a common word?

crescent roll is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.