cinnamon roll

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   rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar (and raisins) then sliced before baking

   Synonymscinnamon buncinnamon snail

   Broadersweet roll

Questions about cinnamon roll

What does cinnamon roll mean?

cinnamon roll means "rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar (and raisins) then sliced before baking".

What is another word for cinnamon roll?

Close synonyms include cinnamon bun, cinnamon snail. 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 cinnamon roll a common word?

cinnamon roll 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.