Meanings
plural wheat breads
- abbreviationcountableellipsisidiomaticuncountableEllipsis of whole-wheat bread.
Near-synonym: brown bread (whole-wheat bread sense)
1 more example
He usually eats wheat bread, but today he ordered white bread to change it up a little.
Synonyms: brown bread
- countableuncountableoccasionallyAny bread made from wheat flour, as contrasted with nonwheat flours.
She likes bread, but she can't eat wheat bread because of the gluten. We picked up some gluten-free bread that's made from other grains.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounEllipsis of whole-wheat bread.
Origin
- Middle Englishwhete bred
- Englishwheat bread
From Middle English whete bred, equivalent to wheat + bread. Compare German Weizenbrot, Danish hvedebrød, Swedish vetebröd, Icelandic hveitibrauð.
More words from Middle English
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Danish hvedebrød
- hvedebrødbread made from wheat flour
German Weizenbrot
- Weizenbrotbread made from wheat flour
Polish chleb pełnoziarnisty, chleb pszenny
- chleb pełnoziarnistywhole-wheat bread
- chleb pszennybread made from wheat flour
Swedish fullkornsbröd, fullkornsvetebröd
- fullkornsbrödwhole-wheat bread
- fullkornsvetebrödwhole-wheat bread
- vetebrödbread made from wheat flour
Tagalog tinapay na may trigo
- tinapay na may trigobread made from wheat flour
Vietnamese bánh mì ngũ cốc, bánh mì nâu
- bánh mì ngũ cốcwhole-wheat bread
- bánh mì nâubread made from wheat flour
Cite this entry
wheat bread. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheat%20bread
“wheat bread.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheat%20bread. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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