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corn-bread

corn-bread is the dated form of cornbread.

Meaning of cornbread

Noun

cornbread (countable and uncountable, plural cornbreads)

  1. (US) Bread made from cornmeal.
    • I have had a hankering lately for cornbread. Laid out on a blue and white checked tablecloth on the beach; a large square wedged alongside a bowl of spicy chili bursting with tender beans; crumbly cubes piled high in a basket, with a plate of hot fried chicken and collard greens. Then there is...2008 August 12, Claire Ptak, “Perfect corn bread”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2013
    Synonyms:
    maizebread

Forms of corn-bread

pluralcorn-breads

Questions about corn-bread

What is corn-bread the dated form of?
Corn-bread is the dated form of cornbread.

Words near corn-bread in the dictionary

  1. corn truffle
  2. corn whiskey
  3. corn whiskeys
  4. corn-beef
  5. corn-beefs
  6. corn-bread
  7. corn-breads
  8. corn-cake
  9. corn-cakes
  10. corn-cob
  11. corn-cobs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corn-bread (page history and authors); cornbread (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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