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say it: yeest
yeast is a noun meaning "a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yeast come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.