brown bread

1. 1.

   bread made with whole wheat flour

   Synonymsdark breadwhole wheat breadwhole meal bread

   Broaderbread

   Narrowergraham bread
2. 2.

   dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water

   SynonymsBoston brown bread

   Broaderbread

Questions about brown bread

What does brown bread mean?

brown bread means "bread made with whole wheat flour". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for brown bread?

Close synonyms include dark bread, whole wheat bread, whole meal bread, Boston brown bread. 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 brown bread a common word?

brown bread is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.