bread
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
Noun
- A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
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(especially) Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
- We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
- My mother used to send me for the bread.
- Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack. - 1913, Joseph...
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- Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- Give us this day our daily bread. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:11:
Synonyms: staff of life
- Any variety of bread.
- Some breads are harder and drier than others.
- Money.
- Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare. - 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published...
- […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA. - 1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals:
- And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?" - 1973, Billy Joel, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), performed by Billy Joel:
Synonyms: ackers bees and honey blunt bones brass bread bread and honey Bugs Bunny cake cheddar cheese ching clams coin cream currency dinero dosh dough feds fedi finances flizz flow
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.? Proto-Germanic *braudą Proto-West Germanic *braud Old English brēad Middle English bred English bread From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”), from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two. Possibly a doublet of broa. Cognates Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Yola breed (“bread”), North Frisian bruad, Bruar, brüüdj (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brood (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Alemannic German brot, broud, bruat, bròt, bröt (“bread”), Cimbrian...
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aerated bread Afghan bread altar bread Amish friendship bread ammunition bread Anadama bread Armenian cracker bread artisan bread banana bread Barbari bread barley bread batter bread beer bread biscuit bread black bread blackfellow's bread Borodino bread Borodinski bread Borodinskii bread Borodinskiy bread Borodinsky bread borodinsky bread Boston brown bread bread science
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adobe bread a little bit of bread and no cheese arval-bread ash bread bake bread bake someone's bread bark bread beebread bee-bread bee bread below the breadline best thing since sliced bread blaanda bread black bread mold bread-and-butter bread and butter bread-and-butter issue bread-and-butter letter bread-and-butter note bread-and-butter pickle bread-and-butter plate bread-and-butter pudding bread and butter pudding bread-and-cheese
Noun Scotland, UK
- Breadth.
Origin
From Middle English brede (“breadth, width, extent”), from Old English brǣdu (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).
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Noun Entry 3
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Origin
Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).
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Verb Entry 4
- To coat with breadcrumbs.
- breaded fish
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Verb Entry 5
- To form in meshes; net.