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- Dictionarygingerbread/ˈdʒɪn(d)ʒəbrɛd/
noun
- 1. cake made with treacle or syrup and flavoured with ginger.
- 2. elaborate or ornate decoration, especially on the eaves or porch of a building: "a high-gabled gingerbread house"
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noun. gin· ger· bread ˈjin-jər-ˌbred. Synonyms of gingerbread. 1. : a cake whose ingredients include molasses and ginger. 2. [from the fancy shapes and gilding formerly often applied to gingerbread] : lavish or superfluous ornament especially in architecture. gingerbread adjective. gingerbreaded. ˈjin-jər-ˌbre-dəd. adjective. gingerbready.
GINGERBREAD definition: 1. a type of cake, usually very dark brown and soft, that contains ginger 2. a type of cake…. Learn more.
Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as a ginger snap.
noun. a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses. a rolled cookie similarly flavored, often cut in fanciful shapes, and sometimes frosted. elaborate, gaudy, or superfluous architectural ornamentation: a series of gables embellished with gingerbread.
noun [ U ] us / ˈdʒɪn·dʒərˌbred / Add to word list. a type of cake or cookie that contains ginger: a gingerbread man (= a spicy gingerbread cookie shaped like a person) (Definition of gingerbread from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of gingerbread. gingerbread.
Definition of gingerbread noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. a. A dark molasses cake flavored with ginger. b. A molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated. 2. a. Elaborate architectural ornamentation, as on the trim of gables and porches on a Victorian house. b. Superfluous or tasteless embellishment.
