BROWN BREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brown bread mean? 

• BROWN BREAD (noun)
  The noun BROWN BREAD has 2 senses:

1. bread made with whole wheat flour

2. dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water

  Familiarity information: BROWN BREAD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWN BREAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bread made with whole wheat flour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

brown bread; dark bread; whole meal bread; whole wheat bread

Hypernyms ("brown bread" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

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

graham bread (bread made of graham (whole wheat) flour)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Boston brown bread; brown bread

Hypernyms ("brown bread" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

 Context examples 

Soon after five p.m. we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee, and half-a-slice of brown bread.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Accordingly we looked in at a baker's window, and after I had made a series of proposals to buy everything that was bilious in the shop, and he had rejected them one by one, we decided in favour of a nice little loaf of brown bread, which cost me threepence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at tea-time; and after relinquishing to a third half the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)