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corn bread

corn bread is the alternative 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 alternative form of?
Corn bread is the alternative form of cornbread.

Words near corn bread in the dictionary

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  2. corn blotch leafminer
  3. corn blotch leafminers
  4. corn borer
  5. corn borers
  6. corn bread
  7. corn breads
  8. corn bunting
  9. corn buntings
  10. corn cheese
  11. corn chip

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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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