cornbread

C2 Topic:Food & Drink

Also spelled corn-bread

US /ˈkɔrnˌbrɛd/ UK /ˈkɔːnbrɛd/
noun Freq #28506

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    bread made chiefly from cornmeal, especially as a traditional food in the United States

    She served warm cornbread beside the beans and greens.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · bread made chiefly from... maize breadcornmeal bread
Word family
Related forms cornmealcornponejohnnycake

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.

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