different between croupier vs gambler

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French croupier.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?pi?(r), -??(?)

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.

Translations

Further reading

• croupier at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?u.pje/

Noun

croupier m (plural croupiers, feminine croupière)

1. croupier

Descendants

• ? English: croupier
• ? German: Croupier
• ? Romanian: crupier
• ? Spanish: crupier
• ? Swedish: croupier

Further reading

• “croupier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

References

English

Etymology

gamble +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmbl?(r)

Noun

gambler (plural gamblers)

1. One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.
2. One who takes significant risks.

Derived terms

• amber gambler

Translations

Anagrams

• Gambrel, gambrel

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gamble.

Verb

gambler

1. (Louisiana) to gamble

Conjugation