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gluten-free

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

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Of food, containing no gluten.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Qualifier: nutrition

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

Examples

  • 8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe there are as many ways to make a brownie as there are ways to cover yourself in chocolate in the process, but the real difference between the gluten-free recipes are in what they replace the wheat with.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Of a person, not eating gluten.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Qualifier: nutrition

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English gluten Proto-Indo-European *preyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *priHós Proto-Germanic *frijwaz Proto-West Germanic *friu Old English frēo Middle English -fre English -free English gluten-free From gluten + -free.

Across languages

Translations

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: sense gluten — containing no gluten
  • Chinese Mandarin: 不含麩質的 /不含麸质的 — containing no gluten
  • Chinese Mandarin: 不含麵筋的 /不含面筋的 (bùhán miànjin de) — containing no gluten
  • Cornish: heb gluten — containing no gluten
  • Czech: bezlepkový — containing no gluten
  • Danish: glutenfri — containing no gluten
  • Dutch: glutenvrij — containing no gluten
  • Esperanto: senglutena — containing no gluten
  • Finnish: gluteeniton — containing no gluten
  • French: sans gluten — containing no gluten
  • German: glutenfrei — containing no gluten
  • Greek: χωρίς γλουτένη (chorís glouténi) — containing no gluten
  • Hungarian: gluténmentes — containing no gluten
  • Italian: aglutinato — containing no gluten
  • Macedonian: безглуте́нски (bezgluténski) — containing no gluten
  • Norwegian Bokmål: glutenfri — containing no gluten
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: glutenfri — containing no gluten
  • Polish: bezglutenowy — containing no gluten
  • Russian: безглюте́новый (bezgljuténovyj) — containing no gluten
  • Spanish: sin gluten — containing no gluten
  • Welsh: heb glwten — containing no gluten