A member of a tribe of the Northern Paiute, an indigenous people of the Great Basin.
Used in a Sentence
bannock
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bannock.
Editorial note
The First Nations Student Association served roasted corn, salmon, and bannock.
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Definitions4
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Quick take
A member of a tribe of the Northern Paiute, an indigenous people of the Great Basin.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of bannock gathered in one view.
(especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.
(Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for bannock.
noun
A member of a tribe of the Northern Paiute, an indigenous people of the Great Basin.
noun
(especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.
noun
(Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
noun
(specifically) This or any similar traditional bread when made by indigenous Americans, originally from native sources such as maize or pseudocereals and plants with starchy roots
Example sentences
The First Nations Student Association served roasted corn, salmon, and bannock.
The Bannock Paving Company was hired to repave the entire road.
Lots of them are griddled, including several Indian breads that nobody is contesting the bread-y-ness of, and lots of cultures have fried breads (bannock bread for instance).
For example, Bannock is proposed as a tribute to Warhol, so call it something like 'Warhol' (though maybe that exact name might also run you into copyright issues...
Suspect Bannock likes that 'directly approach to opponents.
Salmon and Bannock was on my very short must-do list when I visited Vancouver (bonus: it's near a construction site for the new Broadway subway line).
[...] The Bannock Paving Company was hired to repave the entire road.
>The Bannock Paving Company was hired to repave the entire road.
Quote examples
The historian Brigham Madsen notes, "[T]he responsibility for the [Fort Limhi raid] lay mainly with the Bannock." David Bigler concludes that the raid was probably caused by members of the Utah Expedition who were trying to replenish their stores of livestock that had been stolen by Mormon raiders.
Proper noun examples
Bannock is a North Vancouver food truck, often does some interesting fusion things.
Bannock used slag from the local phosphate plants as aggregate in the blacktop, which had proved to be highly satisfactory in many of the roads in the Pocatello, Idaho area.
I'd think that many of the LA posters (Blackfeet, crow, Shoshone, Pawnee, even Bannock) are so garish as to be unusable in most rooms.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use bannock in a sentence?
The First Nations Student Association served roasted corn, salmon, and bannock.
What does bannock mean?
A member of a tribe of the Northern Paiute, an indigenous people of the Great Basin.
What part of speech is bannock?
bannock is commonly used as noun.