Definition of bread
Nouns
food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- Synonyms:
- breadstuff, staff of life
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anadama bread
a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses
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bap
a small loaf or roll of soft bread
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barmbrack
a rich currant cake or bun
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bread-stick, breadstick
a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup
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grissino
a long slender crusty breadstick
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Boston brown bread, brown bread
dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water
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bun, roll
small rounded bread either plain or sweet
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tea bread
sweetened buns to be eaten with tea
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frankfurter bun, hotdog bun
a long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter
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hamburger bun, hamburger roll
a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty
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brioche
a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet
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crescent roll, croissant
very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll
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Vienna roll, hard roll
yeast-raised roll with a hard crust
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soft roll
yeast-raised roll with a soft crust
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kaiser roll
rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center
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Parker House roll
yeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking
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clover-leaf roll
yeast-raised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan
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onion roll
yeast-raised roll flavored with onion
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coffee roll, sweet roll
any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze
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bagel, beigel
(Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
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caraway seed bread
bread containing caraway seeds
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challah, hallah
(Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking
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cinnamon bread
bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins
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cracked-wheat bread
bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine
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cracker
a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
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saltine
a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking
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soda cracker
unsweetened cracker leavened slightly with soda and cream of tartar
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oyster cracker
a small dry usually round cracker
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water biscuit
a thin flour-and-water biscuit usually made without shortening; often served with cheese
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graham cracker
semisweet whole-wheat cracker
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pretzel
glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot
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crouton
a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads
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brown bread, dark bread, whole meal bread, whole wheat bread
bread made with whole wheat flour
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graham bread
bread made of graham (whole wheat) flour
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English muffin
round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle; usually split and toasted before being eaten
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flatbread
any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough
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flatbrod
the thin wafer-like bread of Scandinavia
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bannock
a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland
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chapati, chapatti
flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle
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pita, pocket bread
usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
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garlic bread
French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven
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gluten bread
bread made with gluten flour
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Host
a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion
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loaf, loaf of bread
a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
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French loaf
a loaf of French bread
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meat loaf, meatloaf
a baked loaf of ground meat
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matzah, matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread
brittle flat bread eaten at Passover
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naan, nan
leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
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onion bread
bread containing finely minced onions
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raisin bread
bread containing raisins
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quick bread
breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking
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banana bread
moist bread containing banana pulp
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date bread
bread containing chopped dates
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date-nut bread
bread containing chopped dates and nuts
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nut bread
bread containing chopped nuts
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oatcake
thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal
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Irish soda bread
round loaf made with soda and buttermilk; often containing caraway seeds and raisins
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fry bread, skillet bread
usually cooked in a skillet over an open fire: especially cornbread with ham bits and sometimes Irish soda bread
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cornbread
bread made primarily of cornmeal
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gem, muffin
a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
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Yorkshire pudding
light puffy bread made of a puff batter and traditionally baked in the pan with roast beef
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scone
small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle
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biscuit
small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
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rye bread
any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour
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black bread, pumpernickel
bread made of coarse rye flour
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Jewish rye, Jewish rye bread
(Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds
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limpa
a rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar
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Swedish rye, Swedish rye bread
a moist aromatic yeast-raised bread made with rye flour and molasses and orange rind
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salt-rising bread
white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp
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simnel
a crisp bread of fine white flour
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sour bread, sourdough bread
made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active
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toast
slices of bread that have been toasted
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cinnamon toast
buttered toast with sugar and cinnamon (and nutmeg and grated lemon peel)
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orange toast
buttered toast with sugar and grated orange rind and a little orange juice
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Melba toast
very thin crisp brown toast
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Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread, zwieback
slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp
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wafer
thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
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light bread, white bread
bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour
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French bread
a crusty sourdough bread often baked in long slender tapered loaves or baguettes
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Italian bread
unsweetened yeast-raised bread made without shortening and baked in long thick loaves with tapered ends
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starches
foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread)
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baked goods
foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven
Verbs
cover with bread crumbs
"bread the pork chops before frying them"
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cover
provide with a covering or cause to be covered
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