sourdough bread

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssour bread

   Broaderbread

Questions about sourdough bread

What does sourdough bread mean?

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

What is another word for sourdough bread?

Close synonyms include sour 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 sourdough bread a common word?

sourdough 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.