Phrase guide

garlic bread

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A type of bread topped with garlic, often served with pasta dishes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: garlic toast

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: bread, breadstuff, staff of life

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: knoffelbrood — bread topped with garlic
  • Arabic: خُبْز بِالثُّوم (ḵubz bi-ṯ-ṯūm) — bread topped with garlic
  • Armenian: սխտորով հաց (sxtorov hacʻ) — bread topped with garlic
  • Azerbaijani: sarımsaq çörəyi — bread topped with garlic
  • Catalan: pa d'all — bread topped with garlic
  • Chinese Cantonese: 蒜蓉包 (syun3 jung4 baau1) — bread topped with garlic
  • Chinese Cantonese: 蒜茸包 (syun3 jung4 baau1) — bread topped with garlic
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蒜蓉包 (suànróngbāo) — bread topped with garlic
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蒜茸包 (suànróngbāo) — bread topped with garlic
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蒜香麵包 /蒜香面包 (suànxiāng miànbāo) — bread topped with garlic
  • Danish: hvidløgsbrød — bread topped with garlic
  • Dutch: knoflookbrood — bread topped with garlic
  • Esperanto: ajlpano — bread topped with garlic
  • Estonian: küüslauguleib — bread topped with garlic
  • Faroese: hvítleyksbreyð — bread topped with garlic
  • Finnish: valkosipulileipä — bread topped with garlic
  • French: pain à l'ail — bread topped with garlic
  • French: chapon — bread topped with garlic
  • Galician: pan de allo — bread topped with garlic
  • Georgian: ნივრიანი პური (nivriani ṗuri) — bread topped with garlic
  • German: Knoblauchbrot — bread topped with garlic
  • Greek: σκορδόψωμο (skordópsomo) — bread topped with garlic
  • Hebrew: לֶחֶם שׁוּם (lékhem shum) — bread topped with garlic
  • Hungarian: fokhagymás kenyér — bread topped with garlic
  • Icelandic: hvítlauksbrauð — bread topped with garlic
  • Indonesian: roti garlic — bread topped with garlic
  • Italian: pane all'aglio — bread topped with garlic
  • Japanese: ガーリックトースト (gārikku tōsuto) — bread topped with garlic
  • Japanese: ガーリックブレッド (gārikku bureddo) — bread topped with garlic
  • Korean: 마늘빵 (maneulppang) — bread topped with garlic
  • Latvian: ķiploku maize — bread topped with garlic
  • Macedonian: луков леб (lukov leb) — bread topped with garlic
  • Malay: roti bawang putih — bread topped with garlic
  • Marathi: गार्लिक ब्रेड (gārlik breḍ) — bread topped with garlic
  • Marathi: लसूण पाव (lasūṇ pāv) — bread topped with garlic
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hvitløksbrød — bread topped with garlic
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvitløksbrød — bread topped with garlic
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvitlauksbrød — bread topped with garlic
  • Persian: نان سیر (nân-e sir) — bread topped with garlic
  • Polish: chleb czosnkowy — bread topped with garlic
  • Portuguese: pão de alho — bread topped with garlic
  • Portuguese: pão-de-alho — bread topped with garlic
  • Romanian: pâine cu usturoi — bread topped with garlic
  • Russian: чесно́чный хлеб (česnóčnyj xleb) — bread topped with garlic
  • Spanish: pan de ajo — bread topped with garlic
  • Swedish: vitlöksbröd — bread topped with garlic
  • Tamil: பூண்டு ரொட்டி (pūṇṭu roṭṭi) — bread topped with garlic
  • Turkish: sarımsaklı ekmek — bread topped with garlic
  • Vietnamese: bánh mì bơ tỏi — bread topped with garlic
  • Welsh: bara garlleg — bread topped with garlic
  • Yiddish: קנאָבלברויט (knoblbroyt) — bread topped with garlic