noun
wafer
WAY-fuh
noun
1
A thin, crisp, flat biscuit.
"She served the ice cream with a chocolate wafer on the side."
2
A thin disc of unleavened bread used in Christian communion.
"The priest raised the wafer during the service."
3
A thin slice of silicon used to manufacture electronic circuits.
"The factory produces thousands of silicon wafers a day for microchips."
How to Use Wafer
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA thin, flat, crisp item — could be a biscuit, a communion bread disc, or a slice of silicon in electronics.
Easily confused with
Common pairings
chocolate wafer
silicon wafer
communion wafer
Word Forms
wafered past tense, wafers plural, wafers singular
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman "wafre", from an older Germanic word related to a honeycomb pattern — the same root that gives us "waffle".