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white bread

white bread

12 1.0
A soft, light bread made from white wheat flour
  • noun
  • /waɪt brɛd/
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  • I'll have some toasted white bread, please.

These are things like white rice, white bread, sugar, etcetera.

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Examples

  • Krzakwa was munching on a thin turkey sandwich with mayonnaise on white bread.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Mrs. Ellison prefers white bread.

  • Yeah, if you like white bread.

  • You got any, uh, white bread?

  • But I ask you, judges, what does white bread taste like?

  • White bread on a sandwich is not too cool.

  • They eat white bread over there.

  • For breakfast, we got white bread, peanut butter, and marmalade with coffee, but no milk.

    Academic text (2008)
  • He was eating like a regular American lunch, white bread, ham, cheese, mustard sandwich.

  • I'll have some toasted white bread, please.

Synonyms

bread
vswhite bread
805 1.0

A common food made by baking dough from flour, often with yeast

is a specific refined pale soft loaf rather than the general staple
light bread
vswhite bread
3.1

A soft pale bread made from white wheat flour

focuses on refined flour generally rather than the specific fine milling detail
soft white bread
vswhite bread
1.0

A light, soft pale loaf often used for sandwiches and toast

is used more generally rather than being mainly for sandwiches
wastel
vswhite bread
  • Archaic
9.9

A fine white bread loaf made from the best flour in the Middle Ages

is the modern common term rather than the old historical name

Antonyms

A type of bread made from the whole wheat grain that is denser and healthier than white bread

How Filling

rye bread
4 2.2
bread
805 1.0
white bread
12 1.0

Surface Forms

white bread singular
white breads plural

Morphology

white + bread

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'white' (a color/quality) with 'bread' (a food): a B1 learner who knows both words will infer this refers to bread that is white in colour and typically the refined, soft variety. This simple adjective + noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so the phrase is immediately comprehensible from its parts.

Etymology

White bread comes from the image of a loaf made from very pale, processed flour. Because the grain's outer parts are taken away, the loaf looks white and feels soft, so white bread today means bread made from light, processed flour that is often 'low in fiber'.