Usually means: Spiced, sweet treat, often decorated.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Gingerbread:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gingerbread: Merriam-Webster
  2. gingerbread: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gingerbread: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gingerbread: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gingerbread: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gingerbread, gingerbread: Wordnik
  7. gingerbread: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gingerbread: Wiktionary
  9. gingerbread: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gingerbread: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gingerbread: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gingerbread, gingerbread: Dictionary.com
  13. gingerbread: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gingerbread: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gingerbread (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Gingerbread (architecture), Gingerbread (charity), Gingerbread (disambiguation), Gingerbread (novel), Gingerbread: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gingerbread: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gingerbread: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gingerbread: Rhymezone
  19. Gingerbread: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Gingerbread, Gingerbread: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gingerbread: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gingerbread: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gingerbread: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gingerbread: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. gingerbread: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. gingerbread: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gingerbread, gingerbread: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gingerbread: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gingerbreaded as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gingerbread)

▸ noun:  (food) A type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger.
▸ noun:  (figurative, obsolete) Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.
▸ noun:  (architecture) A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.

Similar:
gingerbread man, gingerbread house, gingersnap, gingernut, stem ginger, ginger nut, lebkuchen, ginger pop, biscuit bread, cake-bread, more...

Opposite:
vanilla, plain, simple, basic, ordinary

Phrases:
gingerbread man, Gingerbread house, gingerbread men, gingerbread plum, gingerbread tree, more...

Adjectives:
hot, gilt, victorian, much, warm, fresh, soft, hard, stale, wooden, musty

Colors:
    brown,     nutmeg,     molasses,     caramel,     toffee, more...


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Similar:
gingerbread man, gingerbread house, gingersnap, gingernut, stem ginger, ginger nut, lebkuchen, ginger pop, biscuit bread, cake-bread, more...

Opposite:
vanilla, plain, simple, basic, ordinary

Phrases:
gingerbread man, Gingerbread house, gingerbread men, gingerbread plum, gingerbread tree, gingerbread palm, gingerbread work, take the gilt off the gingerbread, takes the gilt off the gingerbread, more...

Adjectives:
hot, gilt, victorian, much, warm, fresh, soft, hard, stale, wooden, musty

Colors:
    brown,     nutmeg,     molasses,     caramel,     toffee, more...



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