leaven
Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goodsAny agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
» You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
carlosalberto · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
Treibmittel, Triebmittel, Ferment
заква́скаzakváska, разрыхли́тельrazryxlítelʹ
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
(Judaism, countable, uncountable)Chametz.
- an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something
- a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
Examples
3 sentencesYou shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
The people therefore took dough before it was leavened; and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.
Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy coasts.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English levayn, borrowed from Old French levain, from Vulgar Latin *levāmen, aFrom Middle English levayn, borrowed from Old French levain, from Vulgar Latin *levāmen, a noun based on Latin levō (“raise”).
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Forms
plural: leavensSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable