English > staff of life: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked. |
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| Synonyms | bread, breadstuff |
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| Part of | sandwich | Two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them |
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| Narrower | English muffin | Round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle |
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| Host | A technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion |
| anadama bread | A yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses |
| bap | A small loaf or roll of soft bread |
| barmbrack | A rich currant / currant cake or bun |
| breadstick, bread-stick | A crisp stick-shaped roll |
| brown bread, Boston brown bread | dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water |
| bun, roll | small rounded bread either plain or sweet |
| caraway seed bread | bread containing caraway seeds |
| challah, hallah | (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast |
| cinnamon bread | bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins |
| cracked-wheat bread | bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine |
| cracker | A thin crisp wafer made of flour and water / water with or without leavening and shortening |
| crouton | A small piece of toasted or fried bread |
| dark bread, whole wheat bread, whole meal bread, brown bread | bread made with whole wheat flour |
| flatbread | Any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough |
| garlic bread | French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven |
| gluten bread | bread made with gluten flour |
| loaf of bread, loaf | A shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating |
| matzo, matzoh, matzah, unleavened bread | brittle flat bread eaten at Passover |
| nan, naan | leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India |
| onion bread | bread containing finely minced onions |
| quick bread | breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking |
| raisin bread | bread containing raisins |
| rye bread | Any of various breads made entirely / entirely or partly with rye flour |
| salt-rising bread | white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp |
| simnel | A crisp bread of fine white flour |
| sour bread, sourdough bread | made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active |
| toast | Slices of bread that have been toasted |
| wafer | Thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist) |
| white bread, light bread | bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour |
| Broader | baked goods | Foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven |
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| starches | Foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) |
| Substances | flour | fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain |
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| Spanish | pan |
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| Catalan | pa, Pa |
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