Wafer Definition

wāfər
wafers
noun
A thin, flat, crisp cracker or cookie.
Webster's New World
Anything resembling this, as a thin, flat disk of candy.
Webster's New World
A piece of Eucharistic bread, specif., a thin, flat, white, typically round and unleavened piece of such bread, made from wheat.
Webster's New World
A flat, tablet of rice paper or dried flour paste encasing a powdered drug.
American Heritage Medicine
A small adhesive disk, as of paper, dried paste, gelatin, etc., used as a seal on letters, documents, etc.
Webster's New World
verb
To seal, close, attach, or fasten with a wafer or wafers.
Webster's New World
To prepare in the form of wafers.
American Heritage
To divide into wafers.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Wafer

Noun

Singular:
wafer
Plural:
wafers

Origin of Wafer

  • Middle English wafre from Anglo-Norman variant of Old North French waufre of Germanic origin webh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (= Old French gaufre), from Middle Low German wāfel. Compare waffle.

    From Wiktionary

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