Adjacent Words

doughnut definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke" [syn: ring, halo, annulus, doughnut, anchor ring]
2: a small ring-shaped friedcake [syn: doughnut, donut, sinker]

Merriam Webster's

also donut noun Date: circa 1809 1. a small usually ring-shaped cake fried in fat 2. something (as a mathematical torus) that resembles a doughnut especially in shape • doughnutlike adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (US donut) 1 a small fried cake of sweetened dough, usu. in the shape of a ball or ring. 2 a ring-shaped object, esp. Physics a vacuum chamber for acceleration of particles in a betatron or synchrotron.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Doughnut Dough"nut, n. A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(doughnuts) Note: in AM, also use 'donut' A doughnut is a bread-like cake made from sweet dough that has been cooked in hot fat. N-COUNT