Also spelled corn-bread
noun
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Meanings
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bread made chiefly from cornmeal, especially as a traditional food in the United States
She served warm cornbread beside the beans and greens.
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· bread made chiefly from...
maize breadcornmeal bread
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Etymology
A compound of corn + bread. In North American English corn usually means maize, whose meal became the basis of many Indigenous and later regional breads, including pone, johnnycake, and modern cornbread.