sour bread

1. 1.

   made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active

   Synonymssourdough bread

   Broaderbread

Questions about sour bread

What does sour bread mean?

sour bread means "made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active".

What is another word for sour bread?

Close synonyms include sourdough 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 sour bread a common word?

sour bread 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.