barm

1. 1.

   a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

   Synonymsyeast

   Broaderleaven

   Narroweryeast cakebrewer's yeastmother

Other forms of barm

plural

barms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barm

What does barm mean?

barm means "a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey".

How many syllables are in barm?

barm has 1 syllable: barm.

What is another word for barm?

Close synonyms include yeast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barm a common word?

barm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.