WHITE BREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white bread mean? 

• WHITE BREAD (noun)
  The noun WHITE BREAD has 1 sense:

1. bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour

  Familiarity information: WHITE BREAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE BREAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

light bread; white bread

Hypernyms ("white bread" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "white bread"):

French bread (a crusty sourdough bread often baked in long slender tapered loaves or baguettes)

Italian bread (unsweetened yeast-raised bread made without shortening and baked in long thick loaves with tapered ends)

 Context examples 

A human nutrition study reaffirms the health benefits of substituting refined-grain products like white bread with whole-grain foods like whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, barley, rye, and brown or wild rice.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

That night, on going to bed, I forgot to prepare in imagination the Barmecide supper of hot roast potatoes, or white bread and new milk, with which I was wont to amuse my inward cravings: I feasted instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings, which I saw in the dark; all the work of my own hands: freely pencilled houses and trees, picturesque rocks and ruins, Cuyp-like groups of cattle, sweet paintings of butterflies hovering over unblown roses, of birds picking at ripe cherries, of wren's nests enclosing pearl-like eggs, wreathed about with young ivy sprays.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The woman now called to them that supper was ready, so they gathered around the table and Dorothy ate some delicious porridge and a dish of scrambled eggs and a plate of nice white bread, and enjoyed her meal.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The experimental breakfast consisted of the cereal-based bread and a glass of water, while the control group ate a breakfast consisting of sliced white bread (85g), jam (10g) and margarine (2g), and a glass of water.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)