gingerbread
A type of cake whose main flavoring is gingerA type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger.
» Toruń is famous for its gingerbread.
Thorn ist für seinen Lebkuchen weltbekannt.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)A type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger.
cake flavored with ginger
(countable, uncountable)A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.
(countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable)Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.
Examples
17 sentencesToruń is famous for its gingerbread.
deThorn ist für seinen Lebkuchen weltbekannt.
Tom is good at baking gingerbread.
Tom lives in a gingerbread house.
ruТом живёт в пряничном домике.
Tom and Mary made some gingerbread squirrels.
deTom und Maria machten ein paar Pfefferkucheneichhörnchen.
This is my favorite gingerbread cookie recipe.
deDas ist mein Lieblingslebkuchenplätzchenrezept.
Origin
From Middle English gyngebred, gyngebrede, from Old French gingembras, gingimbrat (“preserFrom Middle English gyngebred, gyngebrede, from Old French gingembras, gingimbrat (“preserved ginger”), from Medieval Latin *gingimbrātus (“gingered”, presumably referring to ginger that perhaps had a pharmaceutical use for some medicinal preparation), with the intrusive m added to gingiber, from Latin zingiber (“ginger”), of earlier Sanskrit origin, through Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis). The third syllable was earlier confounded with bread, and the insertion of an r in the second syllable completed the semblance of a compound word: ginger + bread.
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Forms
plural: gingerbreadsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable