brown bread

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

brown bread (usually uncountable, plural brown breads)

2. Any bread with a brown colour as contrasted with white, off-white, or other colours.

   Hypernyms: bread < food

   Hyponyms: rye bread, rye, pumpernickel bread, pumpernickel

   Coordinate terms: white bread, white

   Near-synonym: black bread

4. Whole-wheat bread.

   Synonyms: wheat bread, wheat

   Hypernyms: bread < food

   Coordinate terms: white bread, white, rye bread, rye, pumpernickel bread, pumpernickel, black bread

Translations

type of bread

• Afrikaans: bruinbrood
• Arabic: خُبْز أَسْمَر m (ḵubz ʔasmar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑麵包 / 黑面包 (hēimiànbāo), 稞麥麵包 / 稞麦面包 (kēmài miànbāo)

• Czech: tmavý chléb
• Estonian: must leib
• Finnish: tumma leipä
• French: pain complet (fr) m
• German: Mischbrot (de) n
• Irish: arán donn m, arán rua m, caiscín m
• Korean: 갈색빵 (galsaekppang)
• Maltese: ħobż ismar
• Mongolian: хар талх (xar talx)
• Polish: ciemne pieczywo n
• Romanian: pâine neagră (ro) f
• Russian: чёрный хлеб m (čórnyj xleb)
• Scottish Gaelic: aran-donn m
• Tagalog: kayumangging tinapay
• Vietnamese: bánh mì nâu

Adjective

brown bread (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, Cockney rhyming slang) Dead.
   • 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:

     I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:dead