Biscuit (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast; scone.
  2. Chiefly British.
    • a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.
    • a cookie.
  3. a pale-brown color.
  4. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
  5. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.
adjective
  1. having the color biscuit.
noun French.
  1. a cookie or cracker.
noun
  1. a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough
  2. a kind of small roll similar to a muffin
    • a pale brown or yellowish-grey colour
    • (as adjective)
  3. earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed
  4. to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred
Biscuit (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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