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quick bread

quick bread noun: a type of bread which is leavened with agents other than yeast (such as baking soda plus an acid) and thus rises more quickly.

Noun

quick bread (countable and uncountable, plural quick breads)

  1. (US) A type of bread which is leavened with agents other than yeast (such as baking soda plus an acid) and thus rises more quickly.

Forms of quick bread

pluralquick breads
alternative formquickbread

Origin of quick bread

From quick + bread.

Questions about quick bread

What does quick bread mean?
Quick bread means a type of bread which is leavened with agents other than yeast (such as baking soda plus an acid) and thus rises more quickly.
What part of speech is quick bread?
Quick bread is a noun.
What is the plural of quick bread?
The plural of quick bread is quick breads.

Words near quick bread in the dictionary

  1. quick as lightning
  2. quick as thought
  3. quick as winking
  4. quick bankruptcies
  5. quick bankruptcy
  6. quick bread
  7. quick breads
  8. quick brown fox
  9. quick brown foxes
  10. quick buck
  11. quick consumption

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