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# gingerbread

«gingerbread» in Mova's school dictionary: **A sweet, spicy cake or biscuit flavoured with ginger…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sweet, spicy cake or biscuit flavoured with ginger, often with treacle or golden syrup. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#m3)

### sense 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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x2)
- The witch's house was made of gingerbread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x3)
- The kitchen smelled of warm gingerbread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/#x4)
- We decorated a gingerbread house at Christmas. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gingerbread» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingerbread/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.