hot cross bun

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   moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze

   Synonymscross bun

   Broadersweet roll

Questions about hot cross bun

What does hot cross bun mean?

hot cross bun means "moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze".

What is another word for hot cross bun?

Close synonyms include cross bun. 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 hot cross bun a common word?

hot cross bun 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.