Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

    Hefe, Bärme, Germ

    дро́жжиdróžži

    дрі́жджіdríždži

    a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

  2. (countable, uncountable)A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

    any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

  3. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

    (countable, uncountable)Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)

  4. Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)

    (countable, uncountable)A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.

    Hefe, Bärme, Germ

    дро́жжиdróžži

    дрі́жджіdríždži

  5. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

    (countable, uncountable)Brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.

  6. A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

    (countable, uncountable)Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.

  7. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.

    (countable, uncountable)The resulting infection, candidiasis.

  8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A frothy foam.

    Gischt

Examples

30 sentences
  1. Bread is made from flour, water and yeast.

    Хліб виготовляють із борошна, води й дріжджів. — hectorvk

    ruХлеб делают из муки, воды и дрожжей. — odexed

    deBrot wird aus Mehl, Wasser und Hefe hergestellt. — mayabe

  2. Don't forget to buy yeast when you go to the supermarket.

  3. Yeast is used in making bread.

    ruДрожжи используются при выпечке хлеба. — odexed

    deHefe wird benutzt, um Brot zu machen. — Augustus

  4. Yeast is used in making beer.

    ruДрожжи используют для создания пива. — odexed

  5. Yeast makes dough rise.

    Дріджі піднімають тісто. — victorq10

    ruДрожжи заставляют тесто подниматься. — Hellerick

    deHefe lässt den Teig aufgehen. — carlosalberto

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
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Русский
By meaning 1
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Deutsch
By meaning 3
fungus:
froth used in medicine, baking and brewing:
frothy foam on sea waves:

Origin

From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West

From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).

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Forms

plural: yeasts
Singularyeast
Pluralyeasts

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey:barm

Word family

19 related words

See also

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