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bread

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

 
Two loaves of bread (1).

Etymology 1Edit

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.

Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”).

Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).

NounEdit

bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)

  1. (uncountable)
    1. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
      We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
      Any leftover bread can be put into the pudding.
    2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  2. (countable) Any variety of bread.
  3. (slang, US) Money.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
    • 1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon & The Animals:
      […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.
    • 1973, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “Piano Man”, performed by Billy Joel:
      And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"
    • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown‎[1], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
      Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.
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  • Bislama: bred
  • Sranan Tongo: brede
  • Tok Pisin: bret
  • → Fiji Hindi: bareed
  • → Marshallese: būreej
  • → Yoruba: búrẹ́dì
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VerbEdit

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

  1. (transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.
    breaded fish
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Etymology 2Edit

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”).

NounEdit

bread (plural breads)

  1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
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Etymology 3Edit

From Middle English breden (“to spread”), from Old English brǣdan (“to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *braidijaną (“to make broad, broaden”).

VerbEdit

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

  1. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.[1]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used

Etymology 4Edit

Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).

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VerbEdit

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

  1. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.

NounEdit

bread (plural breads)

  1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

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Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

bread

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of bred (“bread”)

Old EnglishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą, whence also Old Frisian brād (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon brōd (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German brōt (German Brot), Old Norse brauð and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).

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NounEdit

brēad n (nominative plural brēadru) (rare, chiefly Anglian)

  1. bit, piece, morsel, crumb
  2. bread (foodstuff)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bread
Case Singular Plural
nominative brēad brēadru
accusative brēad brēadru
genitive brēades brēada
dative brēade brēadum

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bread

  1. second-person plural imperative of brear
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