bread
English
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- enPR: brĕd, IPA(key): /bɹɛd/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛd
- Homophone: bred
Etymology 1
[edit]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”).
Noun
[edit]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, Matthew 4:11:
- Give us this day our daily bread.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 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 or Cockney) Money.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
- 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, pages 3–4:
- 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.
- 1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals:
- […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.
- 1973, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), 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, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown[1], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
- Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.
Usage notes
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- (slang: foodstuff): staff of life
- (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga
Hyponyms
[edit]- 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
- 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
- flatbread
- flat bread
- 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
- laver bread
- laverbread
- 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
- multigrain 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
- 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
- temse bread
- temsed bread
- tiger bread
- twice-baked bread
- unleavened bread
- Veda bread
- wastel bread
- wheat bread
- white bread
- wholegrain bread
- whole-grain bread
- wholemeal bread
- whole-meal bread
- whole meal bread
- whole wheat bread
- whole-wheat bread
- wholewheat bread
- yeast bread
- zaatar bread
Derived terms
[edit]- adobe bread
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- arval-bread
- ash bread
- bake someone's bread
- bark bread
- bee-bread
- bee bread
- beebread
- 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
- breadbag
- bread bag
- bread-bag
- bread-bag clip
- bread-barge
- bread basket
- breadbasket, bread-basket
- bread-bearer
- bread beetle
- breadberry, bread-berry
- bread bin
- breadboard, bread board
- bread bowl
- breadbox
- bread box
- bread brake
- bread buckle
- breadcake
- bread cake
- 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
- breadmonger
- bread-monger
- breadness
- breadnut, bread-nut
- bread of affliction
- bread of life
- bread of wheat
- bread palm
- bread pan
- breadpill
- bread pill
- 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 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
- 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
- gut bread
- gutbread
- 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
- 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
- sugar-bread
- sweetbread
- swine-bread
- swinebread
- take bread and salt
- take the bread out of someone's mouth
- tea bread
- tea bread
- to-bread
- treacle bread
- Turkish bread
- white-bread
- Yule bread
Descendants
[edit]- Bislama: bred
- → Big Nambas: p'ret
- Sranan Tongo: brede
- Tok Pisin: bret
- → Fiji Hindi: bareed
- → Hausa: burodi
- → Malayalam: ബ്രെഡ് (breḍŭ), ബ്രെഡ്ഡ് (breḍḍŭ)
- → Marshallese: būreej
- → Nupe: bureedi (possibly via Hausa)
- → Yoruba: búrẹ́dì
Translations
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Verb
[edit]bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.
- breaded fish
Derived terms
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See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]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”).
Noun
[edit]bread (plural breads)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]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”).
Verb
[edit]bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.[1]
References
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive) To form in meshes; net.
Noun
[edit]bread (plural breads)
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bread
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of bred (“bread”)
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]brēad n
Declension
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- (bread): hlāf
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: bred, bredd, brede, breed, breede, breid, brid; bread, bræd; bryad, bryead
Spanish
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