Idiom
wheat bread
Meaning
Ellipsis of whole-wheat bread.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I prefer to buy wheat bread for my sandwiches.”
“The bakery ran out of white rolls, so I bought a loaf of wheat bread instead.”
“Seeking a healthier lifestyle, she replaced her usual white flour products with hearty, fiber-rich wheat bread.”
Examples
simple
“I prefer to buy wheat bread for my sandwiches.”
contextual
“The bakery ran out of white rolls, so I bought a loaf of wheat bread instead.”
complex
“Seeking a healthier lifestyle, she replaced her usual white flour products with hearty, fiber-rich wheat bread.”
Origin
From Middle English *whete bred*, the term is a compound of *wheat* and *bread*. It shares a common Germanic construction with the German *Weizenbrot*, the Danish *hvedebrød*, the Swedish *vetebröd*, and the Icelandic *hveitibrauð*.
Key words
Related idioms
- Updated