bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brĕd
ipa: /bɹɛd/
ipa: /brɛd/
ipa: /brɛːd/
rhymes: -ɛd
homophone: bred
Forms: form: breads
Etymology: From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). 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.
Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), North Frisian bruad, Bruar, brüüdj (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brood (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Cimbrian proat, pròat (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Luxembourgish Brout (“bread”), Mòcheno proat (“bread”), Vilamovian brūt (“bread; loaf”), Yiddish ברויט (broyt, “bread”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk brød (“bread”), Elfdalian broð (“bread”), Faroese breyð (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Crimean Gothic broe (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”). In this sense, mostly replaced loaf, which had been the more common term in Old English (see hlaf), a process which similarly occured in other languages such as German.
Senses: glosses: A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
examples: text: We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
text: My mother used to send me for the bread.
text: 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.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
coordinate_terms: tack
biscuit
examples: text: Give us this day our daily bread.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:11:
synonyms: staff of life
glosses: Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
examples: text: Some breads are harder and drier than others.
glosses: Any variety of bread.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, pages 3–4:
text: […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.
ref: 1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals:
text: And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"
ref: 1973, Billy Joel, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), performed by Billy Joel:
text: Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get our bread.
ref: 2000, Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Tyrone:
text: Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.
ref: 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
synonyms: word: ackers
word: bees and honey
word: blunt
word: bones
word: brass
word: bread
word: bread and honey
word: Bugs Bunny
word: cake
word: cheddar
word: cheese
word: ching
word: clams
word: coin
word: cream
word: currency
word: dinero
word: dosh
word: dough
word: feds
word: fedi
word: finances
word: flizz
word: flow
word: funding
word: funds
word: gravy
word: gwop
word: gwolla
word: jack
word: legal tender
word: lolly
word: lovely jubbly
word: mazuma
word: means
word: money
word: moola
word: mozzarella
word: muck
word: oof
word: ooftish
word: paper
word: rhino
word: scratch
word: scrilla
word: shrapnel
word: simoleons
word: smackers
word: smackeroos
word: smackeroonies
word: spend
word: spondulicks
word: swag
word: wampum
word: wonga
word: yenom
glosses: Money.
Hyponyms: 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
brown bread
bush bread
caraway seed bread
chub bread
ciabatta bread
cinnamon bread
cornbread
corn bread
corn rye bread
court holy bread
cracked-wheat bread
cracker bread
crispbread
crisp bread
Cuban bread
cuckoo bread
curry bread
dark bread
date bread
date-nut bread
dika bread
dole bread
dry bread
egg bread
eggy bread
fairy bread
famine bread
fancy bread
flat bread
flatbread
focaccia bread
French bread
fried bread
frybread
fry bread
garlic bread
gluten bread
God's bread
Graham bread
granary bread
Gyeongju bread
hard bread
hare's bread
haver bread
heavy bread
hog's bread
Holy Bread
Hottentot bread
household bread
Hwangnam bread
Indian bread
Irish soda bread
Italian bread
Jewish rye bread
kaffir bread
Kaffir bread
lava bread
laverbread
laver bread
light bread
limpa bread
liquid bread
loaf bread
Logan bread
mandel bread
marble rye bread
mealie bread
melon bread
milk bread
monkey bread
monkey's bread
native bread
new bread
nut bread
oaten bread
olive bread
onion bread
pan bread
pilot bread
pita bread
pitta bread
plain bread
po' boy bread
pocket bread
potato apple bread
potato bread
Pugliese bread
pumpernickel bread
pumpkin bread
quick bread
raised bread
raisin bread
ravel bread
ravelled bread
Russian black bread
Russian Easter bread
rye bread
sacramental bread
sad bread
Saint John's bread
salt-rising bread
sausage bread
sea bread
Seminole bread
shewbread
ship bread
showbread
singing bread
skillet bread
skillet corn bread
sliced bread
soda bread
sour bread
sourbread
sourdough bread
sowbread
spoonbread
spoon bread
St John's bread
sunflower bread
Swedish limpa bread
Swedish rye bread
sweet bread
sweetcorn bread
sweet rye bread
swine's bread
temse bread
temsed bread
tiger bread
twice-baked bread
unleavened bread
Veda bread
wastel bread
wheat bread
white bread
whole-grain bread
wholegrain bread
wholemeal bread
whole meal bread
whole-meal bread
whole wheat bread
wholewheat bread
whole-wheat bread
yeast bread
zaatar bread
Derived terms: adobe bread
a little bit of bread and no cheese
arval-bread
ash bread
bake someone's bread
bark bread
bee bread
beebread
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
bread-and-cheese
bread and circuses
bread and games
bread and honey
bread and milk
bread and roses
bread and salt
bread and scrape
bread and water
bread and wine
bread-artist
bread-bag
bread bag
breadbag
bread-bag clip
bread-barge
bread basket
breadbasket
bread-basket
bread-bearer
bread beetle
breadberry
bread-berry
bread bin
breadboard
bread board
Bread Book
bread bowl
bread box
breadbox
bread brake
bread buckle
bread cake
breadcake
bread cheese
bread chipper
bread clip
bread-controller
breadcorn
bread-corn
breadcraft
bread crumb
breadcrumb
breadcrust
breadcrust bomb
breadcutter
bread dough
bread dust
breaden
breader
bread flake
bread-fleigh
bread flour
breadfruit
bread god
breadhead
bread-head
breadish
breadishness
bread jelly
breadkind
bread knife
bread-lepe
breadless
breadlike
breadline
bread line
bread machine
bread maker
breadmaker
breadmaking
breadman
bread meal
bread mold
bread mould
bread-monger
breadmonger
breadness
breadnut
bread-nut
bread of affliction
bread of life
bread of wheat
bread palm
bread pan
bread pill
breadpill
bread poultice
bread powder
bread pudding
bread-purveyor
bread roll
breadroom
bread-room
breadroot
bread-root
breadroot scurf pea
bread sandwich
bread sauce
bread science
breadseller
bread-skep
bread slicer
bread soda
bread soup
bread starter
bread-steward
breadstick
bread-stick
bread-stitch
bread study
bread-study
breadstuff
bread-stuff
bread tab
bread tag
bread ticket
bread tie
bread trade
bread tree
BreadTube
bread unit
bread wheat
breadwich
breadwinner
bread-winner
breadwinning
bread-worship
breadwort
bready
break bread
burn bread
butter bread
butter one's bread on both sides
cake-bread
cast one's bread upon the waters
cheat-bread
cheese and bread
clapbread
clap-bread
cloud bread
cocket-bread
cockle-bread
coco bread
crackerbread
crazy bread
cream of tartar bread
cuckoo-bread
cuckoo's bread
daily bread
dain-bread
devil's bread
dog-bread
dog bread
don't get your meat where you get your bread
eaten bread is soon forgotten
eat the bread of idleness
embread
Essene bread
Ezekiel bread
freedom bread
full of bread
gingerbread
giraffe bread
greatest thing since sliced bread
gutbread
gut bread
gut-bread
half a loaf is better than no bread
hard dough bread
hardo bread
have one's bread buttered for life
have one's bread buttered on both sides
horse-bread
hot bread kitchen
hot bread shop
in bad bread
in-bread
inbread
in good bread
kaffir bread
kafir bread
know which side one's bread is buttered on
lamb's bread
lardy bread
loaf of bread
logan bread
man shall not live by bread alone
Molotov bread basket
Molotov's bread basket
monkey-bread
moulding of cockle bread
moulding of cocklety bread
music bread
nonbread
oatbread
on the breadline
oven bread
prosciutto bread
put bread on the table
put butter on one's bread
riddlebread
sandwich bread
shew bread
shew-bread
shortbread
showbread
sowbread
sow bread
sow-bread
sprouted bread
St. John's bread
sugar-bread
sweetbread
swine-bread
swinebread
take bread and salt
take the bread out of someone's mouth
tea bread
to-bread
treacle bread
Turkish bread
whatever butters your bread
white-bread
Yule bread