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rye

rye

5 2.9
The grain of a grass used to make flour, bread, and alcoholic drinks
  • noun
  • /raɪ/
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  • And you respond, Give me a pastrami on rye, please.
  • wheat and rye

So let's say for the choice of bread, you can choose wheat or rye.

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Examples

  • She ordered a sandwich made with rye bread and pastrami.

  • I need a half a pound of potato salad and a loaf of rye bread, please.

    Starting Over (1979)

  • "I let you have the heel of the rye bread "that I love so much.

    Mr. Saturday Night (1992)

  • - Swiss cheese on rye.

    Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)

  • And we're going to be putting them on some sourdough rye bread.

  • We also have a little bag of some rye crackers you can dip them in.

  • I made you the egg and olive on rye, Miss Skeeter.

    The Help (2011)

  • Lunch was a cheese on rye and black coffee from the courthouse cafeteria.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • It's served on rye toast with coleslaw and mayo.

    Dirty Dancing (2017)

  • The room is empty, and Bessie eats alone, a tuna fish sandwich on rye bread and a bottle of cranberry-apple juice.

    Fiction book (1997)

Synonyms

Secale cereale
vsrye
  • Specialized
1 8.2

A hardy grain plant grown to make bread and whiskey

is the everyday food name rather than the formal Latin term

Compounds

rye bread
4 2.2

Bread made with rye flour that is darker and denser than wheat bread

rye whiskey
  • US
2 3.5

An alcoholic drink made mainly from rye grain

rye grass
  • Specialized
1 3.4

A grass often grown for lawns or animal feed

rye flour
1 2.8

A powder from ground rye grain used for baking bread

Canada wild rye
  • US
8.4

A tall rough grass from North America with spiky flower heads that grows in open grassland

French rye
  • Specialized
9.8

A rough grass from Europe and Asia that grows by roads and in meadows and is used to feed animals

Italian rye
6.5

A fast-growing grass grown for hay, lawns, and to improve soil

Jewish rye
3.6

A dark, dense bread made from rye flour often flavored with caraway seeds

Jewish rye bread
3.0

A dark bread made from rye flour with a tangy taste and caraway seeds

rye vodka
4.2

A clear strong alcoholic drink made mainly from rye grains

rye ergot
  • Specialized
9.4

A hard dark clump of fungus on rye and other grain that can be poisonous if eaten

Swedish rye
6.3

A moist rye bread flavored with orange peel and molasses

Swedish rye bread
5.0

A moist rye bread that has molasses, spices, and orange flavour from Sweden

wild rye
6.2

A long grass that grows naturally in fields and helps hold soil and feed animals

Surface Forms

rye singular
ryes plural

Etymology

The word rye comes from an old German word ryge that named the same grain and seed, like modern German Roggen. That's why we use rye to mean the seed or flour used to make bread and other foods.