bread
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: brĕd, IPA(key): /bɹɛd/
Audio (RP) (file) Audio (GA) (file) - (General Australian) enPR: brĕd, IPA(key): /bɹɛd/, /bɹeːd/
- Rhymes: -ɛd
- Homophone: bred
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)
- (uncountable)
- 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.
- Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 4:11:
- Give us this day our daily bread.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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.
- A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- (countable) Any variety of bread.
- (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.
Usage notesEdit
SynonymsEdit
- (slang: foodstuff): staff of life
- (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga
HyponymsEdit
- 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
- Boston brown bread
- bread science
- brown bread
- bush bread
- caraway seed bread
- chub bread
- ciabatta bread
- cinnamon bread
- corn bread
- corn rye bread
- cornbread
- court holy bread
- cracked-wheat bread
- cracker bread
- crisp bread
- crispbread
- 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
- fancy bread
- flat bread
- flatbread
- focaccia bread
- French bread
- fried bread
- fry bread
- frybread
- 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
- laver bread
- laverbread
- light bread
- limpa bread
- liquid bread
- loaf bread
- mandel bread
- marble rye bread
- mealie bread
- melon bread
- monkey bread
- monkey's bread
- multigrain bread
- native bread
- new bread
- nut bread
- oaten bread
- olive bread
- onion bread
- pan bread
- pilot bread
- pita bread
- pitta bread
- plain 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
- schiacciata 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
- spoon bread
- spoonbread
- St John's bread
- sunflower bread
- Swedish limpa bread
- Swedish rye bread
- sweet bread
- sweet rye bread
- sweetcorn bread
- temse bread
- temsed bread
- tiger bread
- twice-baked bread
- unleavened bread
- Veda bread
- wastel bread
- wheat bread
- white bread
- whole meal bread
- whole wheat bread
- whole-grain bread
- whole-meal bread
- whole-wheat bread
- wholegrain bread
- wholemeal bread
- wholewheat bread
- yeast bread
- zaatar bread
Derived termsEdit
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- adobe bread
- arval-bread
- ash bread
- bake someone's bread
- bark bread
- be in bad bread
- be in good bread
- bee bread
- bee-bread
- best thing since sliced bread
- blaanda bread
- black bread mold
- bread and butter
- bread and butter pudding
- bread and cheese
- bread and circuses
- bread and honey
- bread and milk
- bread and salt
- bread and scrape
- bread and water
- bread and wine
- bread bag
- bread basket
- bread beetle
- bread bin
- bread bowl
- bread box
- bread buttered on both sides
- bread cake
- bread clip
- bread crumb
- bread dough
- bread flour
- bread knife
- bread machine
- bread maker
- bread mold, bread mould
- bread of affliction
- bread of life
- bread of wheat
- bread palm
- bread pan
- bread pill
- bread poultice
- bread pudding
- bread roll
- bread sandwich
- bread sauce
- bread science
- bread soda
- bread starter
- bread study, bread-study
- bread tag
- bread tree
- bread upon the waters
- bread wheat
- bread-and-butter
- bread-and-butter issue
- bread-and-butter letter
- bread-and-butter note
- bread-and-butter pickle
- bread-and-butter pudding
- bread-and-cheese
- bread-artist
- bread-barge
- bread-bearer
- bread-brake
- bread-chipper
- bread-controller
- bread-dust
- bread-flake
- bread-fleigh
- bread-god
- bread-jelly
- bread-lepe
- bread-meal
- bread-monger
- bread-powder
- bread-purveyor
- bread-skep
- bread-steward
- bread-ticket
- bread-trade
- bread-unit
- bread-worship
- breadbasket, bread-basket
- breadberry, bread-berry
- breadboard, bread board
- breadbox
- breadcorn, bread-corn
- breadcrumb
- breadcrust bomb
- breaden
- breadfruit
- breadhead, bread-head
- breadish
- breadkind
- breadless
- breadline, bread line
- breadness
- breadnut, bread-nut
- breadroom, bread-room
- breadroot scurf pea
- breadroot, bread-root
- breadstick, bread-stick
- breadstuff, bread-stuff
- breadwinner, bread-winner
- breadwort
- bready
- break bread
- burn bread
- butter one's bread on both sides
- butterbread
- cake-bread
- cast one's bread upon the waters
- cheat-bread
- cheese and bread
- clapbread, clap-bread
- cocket-bread
- cockle-bread
- coco bread
- 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
- eat the bread of idleness
- eaten bread is soon forgotten
- embread
- Essene bread
- Ezekiel bread
- freedom bread
- full of bread
- gingerbread
- greatest thing since sliced bread
- gut bread
- gut-bread
- half a loaf is better than no bread
- hard dough bread
- hardo bread
- have one's bread buttered for life
- horse-bread
- hot bread kitchen
- in-bread
- inbread
- kafir bread
- know which side one's bread is buttered on
- lamb's bread
- lardy bread
- loaf of 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
- on the breadline
- oven bread
- prosciutto bread
- put bread on the table
- put butter on one's bread
- riddle-bread
- sandwich bread
- shew bread
- shew-bread
- shortbread
- show-bread
- sowbread, sow bread, sow-bread
- sprouted bread
- sugar-bread
- sweetbread
- swine-bread
- take bread and salt
- take the bread out of someone's mouth
- tea bread
- tea bread
- therf-bread
- to-bread
- treacle bread
- Turkish bread
- white-bread
- Yule bread
DescendantsEdit
- Bislama: bred
- Sranan Tongo: brede
- Tok Pisin: bret
- → Fiji Hindi: bareed
- → Marshallese: būreej
- → Yoruba: búrẹ́dì
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.
- breaded fish
Derived termsEdit
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See alsoEdit
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)
Derived termsEdit
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)
- (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.[1]
ReferencesEdit
Etymology 4Edit
Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive) To form in meshes; net.
NounEdit
bread (plural breads)
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
bread
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of bred (“bread”)
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brēad n (nominative plural brēadru) (rare, chiefly Anglian)
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
- (bread): hlāf
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
bread