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BAGEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bagel mean? 

BAGEL (noun)
  The noun BAGEL has 1 sense:

1. (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crustplay

  Familiarity information: BAGEL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BAGEL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bagel; beigel

Hypernyms ("bagel" is a kind of...):

bun; roll (small rounded bread either plain or sweet)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bagel"):

onion bagel (bagel flavored with onion)


 Context examples 


For example, an ultra-processed breakfast might consist of a bagel with cream cheese and turkey bacon, while the unprocessed breakfast was oatmeal with bananas, walnuts, and skim milk.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)



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