white bread

== English == === Alternative forms === (adj) white-bread, whitebread (noun) whitebread === Pronunciation === === Noun === white bread (usually uncountable, plural white breads) Bread made from white flour. Alternative form: white (ellipsis) Hypernyms: bread < food Coordinate terms: black bread, brown bread, light bread, pain de mie, wholemeal bread, whole wheat bread, wheat bread, rye bread, wheat, rye, pumpernickel (idiomatic, often) A storebought, mass-produced, inexpensive type of such bread that is very soft and is usually in the Pullman loaf shape. (chiefly US, slang, often derogatory, ethnic slur) A middle-class white person (person of European descent), or a person who 'acts white'. ==== Usage notes ==== The relative sophistication of the process of producing white flour initially created positive associations with progress and wealth; more recently, white bread's longer shelf-life, relative lack of flavor, and associations with harmful bleaching chemicals have created more neutral or even negative associations. The ethnic slur is more often encountered as an adjective. ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === white bread (comparative more white bread, superlative most white bread) (chiefly US, colloquial, derogatory) Bland, boring; flavorless. Synonyms: conventional, bourgeois, wonderbread; see also Thesaurus:boring, Thesaurus:insipid (chiefly US, slang, often derogatory, ethnic slur) Characteristic of or relating to middle-class white people. Synonym: wonderbread ==== Further reading ==== white bread on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === whitebeard