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# gingerbread

noun (gingerbread, uncountable; a gingerbread man, gingerbread men)

«gingerbread» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A sweet, spicy cake or biscuit flavoured with ginger, often with treacle or golden syrup. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#m1)
2. A biscuit cut into a shape, especially a person (a gingerbread man), often decorated with icing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#m2)
3. (old use) Fancy carved decoration on a building, as in a «gingerbread house» style. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories, «The Gingerbread Man» runs away shouting «Run, run, as fast as you can!» and in «Hansel and Gretel» the witch lives in a gingerbread house. At Christmas, families bake gingerbread houses. In maths, gingerbread biscuits can be used for sharing and counting problems.

### Examples

- We baked gingerbread men for the class party. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x1)
- «Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x2)
- The witch's house was made of gingerbread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x3)
- The kitchen smelled of warm gingerbread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x4)
- We decorated a gingerbread house at Christmas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x5)
- If 12 gingerbread men are shared between 4 children, each gets 3. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x6)
- The carriage was lined inside with sugar-plums, and in the seats were fruits and gingerbread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x7)

### Note

Uncountable as the cake («a slice of gingerbread»); countable with «man/men/biscuits». One word. In the US, gingerbread is often a soft cake; in the UK it is more often a biscuit.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «gingerbread» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gingerbread» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gingerbread.html) on Mova free.