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brown bread

brown bread noun: any bread with a brown colour as contrasted with white, off-white, or other colours.

Noun

brown bread (usually uncountable, plural brown breads)

  1. (usually) Any bread with a brown colour as contrasted with white, off-white, or other colours.
    • Near-synonym: black bread
    Synonyms:
    black bread
  2. (usually) Whole-wheat bread.
    Synonyms:
    wheat bread, wheat

Adjective

brown bread (not comparable)

  1. (Cockney, idiomatic, slang) Dead.
    • I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers

brown bread meaning in Tagalog, Arabic and Vietnamese

brown bread in Tagalog

type of bread
kayumangging tinapay

brown bread in Arabic

type of bread
خُبْز أَسْمَر ḵubz ʔasmar

brown bread in Vietnamese

type of bread
bánh mì nâu

Synonyms of brown bread

Forms of brown bread

pluralbrown breads

Questions about brown bread

What does brown bread mean?
Brown bread means any bread with a brown colour as contrasted with white, off-white, or other colours.
What is brown bread in Tagalog?
Brown bread in Tagalog is kayumangging tinapay. See Brown bread meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is brown bread?
Brown bread can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of brown bread?
The plural of brown bread is brown breads.

Words near brown bread in the dictionary

  1. brown bottle flu
  2. brown box
  3. brown box crab
  4. brown box crabs
  5. brown boxes
  6. brown bread
  7. brown breads
  8. brown bullhead
  9. brown bullheads
  10. brown butter
  11. brown catshark

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