croupier

See also: Croupier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French croupier.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹupiɚ/, /ˈkɹupieɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuːpɪə/, /ˈkɹuːpieɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːpiə(ɹ), -uːpieɪ

Noun

croupier (plural croupiers)

1. The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
   • 1979, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler:

     Every time the little gate creaks--I'm in the shed with the tanks at the end of the garden--I wonder from which of my pasts the person is arriving, seeking me out even here: maybe it is only the past of yesterday and of this same suburb, the squat Arab garbage collector who in October begins his rounds for tips, house by house, with a Happy New Year card, because he says that his colleagues keep all the December tips for themselves and he never gets a penny; but it could also be the more distant pasts pursuing old Ruedi, finding the little gate in the Impasse: smugglers from Valais, mercenaries from Katanga, croupiers from the Veradero casino and the days of Fulgencio Batista.

2. One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

Derived terms

• croupier stick

Translations

person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table

• Bulgarian: крупие n (krupie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 荷官 (héguān)

• Czech: krupiér m
• Dutch: croupier (nl) m, spelleider (nl) m, spelleidster f
• Estonian: krupjee
• Finnish: krupieeri (fi)
• French: croupier (fr) m, croupière (fr) f
• German: Croupier (de) m, Croupière (de) f
• Greek: κρουπιέρης (el) m (kroupiéris), κρουπιέρισσα (el) f (kroupiérissa)
• Hungarian: krupié (hu)
• Indonesian: bandar (id)
• Macedonian: крупие́ n (krupié)
• Polish: krupier (pl) m, krupierka (pl) f
• Russian: крупье́ (ru) m (krupʹjé)
• Spanish: crupier (es) m, tallador (es) m, talladora (es) f, repartidor de casino m, repartidora de casino f
• Swedish: croupier (sv) c
• Turkish: krupiye (tr)
• Vietnamese: người hồ lì

Further reading

• “croupier”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁu.pje/

• Audio:

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Noun

croupier m (plural croupiers, feminine croupière)

1. croupier

Descendants

• → English: croupier
• → German: Croupier
• → Polish: krupier
• → Romanian: crupier
• → Spanish: crupier
• → Swedish: croupier
• → Turkish: krupiye

Further reading

• “croupier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Noun

croupier m (plural croupieres or croupiers)

1. Alternative form of crupier

Swedish

Etymology

From French croupier, attested from 1780.

Noun

croupier c

1. a croupier

Declension

Declension of croupier

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	croupier	croupiers
	definite	croupieren	croupierens
plural	indefinite	croupierer	croupierers
	definite	croupiererna	croupierernas