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loaf

  • noun
  • /ləʊf/

also A block of bread after baking.

Other meanings

  1. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

  2. the brain or the head.

A kind of

  • bread

Kinds of loaf

  • meat loaf

Word history

From Old English "hlāf" (bread; loaf).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “loaf” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.