Definitions for gingerbread

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gingerbread gin·ger·bread

Spelling: [jin-jer-bred]

IPA: /ˈdʒɪn dʒərˌbrɛd/

Gingerbread is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 673 anagrams from letters in gingerbread (abdeegginrr).

Definitions for gingerbread

noun

1. a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
2. a rolled cookie similarly flavored, often cut in fanciful shapes, and sometimes frosted.
3. elaborate, gaudy, or superfluous architectural ornamentation:

adjective

1. heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented:

Origin of gingerbread

1250-1300; Middle English gingebreed (influenced by breed bread), variant of gingebrad, -brat ginger paste Old French gingembras, -brat preserved ginger Medieval Latin *gingi(m)brātum a medic

Examples for gingerbread

You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement?

Suppose I should wish to buy a small piece of gingerbread for a cent.

I don't think I was expecting a gingerbread house but I expected something a little more fun.

Sairy, cutting the gingerbread into squares, held the knife suspended.

"Well, you will have to if we have gingerbread for supper," said Gloriana.

Chocolate melts, cotton candy disintegrates, graham-cracker walls separate, and gingerbread roofs eventually cave in.

Merton said that on Friday, Olivia had been excited to get home from school and make a gingerbread house.

The first family decorates for the holidays with a 300-pound gingerbread White House and ‘Boflakes.’

Now you can put in your gingerbread whenever you are ready, Glory.

She has been helping us make crumpets, crullers, gingerbread, and cake.