- [countable] a container that you pour a liquid or soft substance into, which then becomes solid in the same shape as the container, for example when it is cooled or cooked
- A clay mold is used for casting bronze statues.
- Pour the chocolate into a heart-shaped mold.
- [countable, usually singular] a particular style showing the characteristics, attitudes or behaviour that are typical of somebody/something
- a hero in the ‘Superman’ mold
- He is cast in a different mold from his predecessor.
- She doesn’t fit (into) the traditional mold of an academic.
- [uncountable, countable] a fine soft green, grey or black substance like fur that is a type of fungus and that grows on old food or on objects that are left in warm wet air
- There's mold on the cheese.
- molds and fungi
- mold growth
Idioms
See mold in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybreak the mold (of something)
- to change what people expect from a situation, especially by acting in a dramatic and original way
they broke the mold (when they made somebody/something)
- used to say that somebody/something is the only person or thing of their/its kind and there will never be another like them/it
- Jenny, after they made you they broke the mold.
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