brewer's yeast

Questions about brewer's yeast

What does brewer's yeast mean?

brewer's yeast means "yeast used in fermenting beer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for brewer's yeast?

Close synonyms include baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 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 brewer's yeast a common word?

brewer's yeast 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.