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/ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/ · noun
(cooking) A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served..
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.
Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.
Use ramekin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ramekin means (cooking) A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served..
Common synonyms include ramequin.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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