English Explanatory Dictionary

white bread

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Bread made from white flour.
  2. A storebought, mass-produced, inexpensive type of such bread that is very soft and is usually in the Pullman loaf shape.
  3. A middle-class white person (person of European descent), or a person who 'acts white'.
adj
  1. Bland, boring; flavorless.
  2. Characteristic of or relating to middle-class white people.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-white bread.wav

Word forms

white bread white breads white-bread whitebread more white bread most white bread

Synonyms

conventional bourgeois wonderbread banal basic beat blah bland boring cold colourless corny drab stuffy dreich drowsy dull dull as dishwater flat heavy going ho-hum humdrum insipid lackluster lame languid lifeless longsome monotonous mundane no fun at parties plain plodding prosaic prosy pedantic pedestrian static straightforward snoozeworthy soporific tedious uncool wan weaksauce wooden uninteresting stodgy vapid vanilla cardboard flaggy flavorless ingustible intastable savorless tame gustless sapidless mawkish

Related words

white

Translations

Afrikaans: witbrood Catalan: pa blanc Chinese Cantonese: 白麵包 /白面包 Chinese Mandarin: 白麵包 /白面包 Dutch: wittebrood Estonian: sai Finnish: vaalea leipä Finnish: valkoinen leipä French: pain blanc French: pain de mie German: Weißbrot German: Weissbrot Greek: λευκό ψωμί Greek: άσπρο ψωμί Hungarian: fehér kenyér Hunsrik: Weisbrod Icelandic: hveitibrauð Icelandic: franskbrauð Indonesian: roti putih Irish: arán bán Irish: arán geal Italian: pane bianco Japanese: 白パン Latvian: baltmaize Low German: Stuten Low German: Stuut Maltese: ħobż abjad Plautdietsch: Wittbroot Polish: białe pieczywo Portuguese: pão branco Romanian: pâine albă Russian: бе́лый хлеб Spanish: pan blanco Swedish: vitt bröd Tagalog: puting tinapay Vietnamese: bánh mì trắng Welsh: bara can Welsh: bara gwyn Yiddish: ווײַסברויט Yiddish: בולקע
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