"wheat bread" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wheat breads [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English whete bred, equivalent to wheat + bread. Compare German Weizenbrot, Danish hvedebrød, Swedish vetebröd, Icelandic hveitibrauð. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|whete bred}} Middle English whete bred, {{af|en|wheat|bread}} wheat + bread, {{cog|de|Weizenbrot}} German Weizenbrot, {{cog|da|hvedebrød}} Danish hvedebrød, {{cog|sv|vetebröd}} Swedish vetebröd, {{cog|is|hveitibrauð}} Icelandic hveitibrauð Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wheat bread (countable and uncountable, plural wheat breads)
  1. (idiomatic) Ellipsis of whole-wheat bread. Wikidata QID: Q14650718 Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, idiomatic, uncountable Alternative form of: whole-wheat bread Synonyms: brown bread Hypernyms: bread, food Related terms: wheatbread [alternative], wheat [alternative] Coordinate_terms: white bread, white, rye bread, rye, pumpernickel, black bread Translations (whole-wheat bread): chleb pełnoziarnisty [masculine] (Polish), fullkornsbröd (Swedish), fullkornsvetebröd (Swedish), bánh mì ngũ cốc (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-wheat_bread-en-noun-en:Q14650718 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Breads Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 75 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Ingrian translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Breads: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'whole-wheat bread': 91 9
  2. (occasionally) Any bread made from wheat flour, as contrasted with nonwheat flours. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: wheatbread [alternative], wheat [alternative] Translations (bread made from wheat flour): hvedebrød [neuter] (Danish), pantrigo [masculine] (Galician), Weizenbrot [neuter] (German), saija (Ingrian), siitnikka (Ingrian), chleb pszenny [masculine] (Polish), vetebröd [neuter] (Swedish), tinapay na may trigo (english: bread with wheat) (Tagalog), bánh mì nâu (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-wheat_bread-en-noun-en:any_bread_made_from_wheat Categories (other): Breads Disambiguation of Breads: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'bread made from wheat flour': 8 92

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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