banana bread
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- noun
- /bəˈnænə brɛd/
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pan de plátano
- We've got dessert, banana bread with caramel and vanilla ice cream homemade from scratch.
- bake banana bread
- loaf of banana bread
- make banana bread
Although mine just literally the other day sent around banana bread to six different people.
- Although mine just literally the other day sent around banana bread to six different people.
- If you do, this is like a life changing piece of banana bread.
- OK, now I'm just going to like flop it around a little bit and voila, there's our banana bread.
- The back of this flower has a banana bread recipe.
Examples
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And today I made my first banana bread and I'm about to eat it with some peanut butter blueberries.
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I look forward to being reacquainted someday soon—and sampling some of this amazing banana bread!
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OK, so now we're going to let our banana bread cool for over an hour, maybe two hours, not sure.
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My sister loved the banana bread you made.
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I brought you banana bread.
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I was making banana bread.
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Is this a moist banana bread covered in sugar?
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Today's pick was banana bread and Nutella.
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People are baking bread (banana bread, for example), muffins, cookies, cakes, etc., and giving them as gifts this year.
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My sister loved the banana bread you made.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet, moist bread made with mashed bananas' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'banana' + 'bread' — a noun-noun compound where the first noun modifies the type/flavor of the second. This compounding pattern (e.g., 'pan de plátano', 'pain à la banane') is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun banana bread comes from home cooks who mashed soft, over-ripe bananas and mixed them into a bread batter to bake a loaf. So, the name explains why it means 'a sweet, moist bread made with mashed bananas'.