Bread Definition
bread
English
Two
loaves of bread (1).
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Etymology
From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-Germanic *braudan (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bherw-, *bhrew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternate etymology derives bread from *braudaz, *brauþaz ("broken piece, fragment"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the twain. Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”).
Pronunciation
- (Australia) enPR: brĕd, IPA: /brɛd/, SAMPA: /brEd/ or IPA: /breːd/, SAMPA: /bre:d/
- (UK, US) enPR: brĕd, IPA: /brɛd/, SAMPA: /brEd/
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- Rhymes: -ɛd
- Homophone: bred
Noun
bread (countable and uncountable; plural breads)
- (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals
- (countable) Any variety of bread
- (slang) money
Synonyms
Usage notes
Derived terms
terms derived from
bread
- aerated bread
- Afghan bread
- altar bread
- Amish friendship bread
- ammunition bread
- anadama bread
- apple potato bread
- Armenian cracker bread
- artisan bread
- bake someone's bread
- banana bread
- Barbari bread
- barley bread
- batter bread
- bee-bread
- beer bread
- biscuit bread
- black bread
- blackfellow's bread
- Boston brown bread
- bread and butter
- bread and cheese
- bread and circuses
- 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-barge
- bread-basket, breadbasket
- bread-bearer
- bread beetle
- bread-berry, breadberry
- bread bin
- bread board, breadboard
- bread bowl
- breadbox
- bread-brake
- bread buttered on both sides
- bread-chipper
- bread clip
- bread-controller
- bread-corn, breadcorn
- breadcrumb
- bread-crust bomb
- bread dough
- bread-dust
- breaden
- bread-flake
- bread-fleigh
- bread flour
- breadfruit
- bread-god
- bread-head, breadhead
- breadish
- breadkind
- bread knife
- bread-jelly
- bread-lepe
- breadless
- bread line, breadline
- bread machine
- bread maker
- bread-meal
- bread mold, bread mould
- breadness
- bread-nut, breadnut
- bread of affliction
- bread of idleness
- bread of life
- bread of wheat
- bread palm
- bread pan
- bread pill
- bread poultice
- bread-powder
- bread pudding
- bread-purveyor
- bread roll
- bread-room, breadroom
- bread-root, breadroot, breadroot scurf pea
- bread sauce
- bread-science
- bread-study
- bread-skep
- bread starter
- bread-steward
- bread-stick, breadstick
- bread study
- bread-stuff, breadstuff
- bread tag
- bread-ticket
- bread-trade
- bread tree, bread-tree
- bread-unit
- bread upon the waters
- bread wheat
- bread-winner, breadwinner
- bread-worship
- breadwort
- bready
- break bread
- brown bread
- bush bread
- butterbread
- butter one's bread on both sides
- cake-bread
- caraway seed bread
- cast one's bread upon the waters
- cheat-bread
- cheese and bread
- chub bread
- ciabatta bread
- cinnamon bread
- clap-bread, clapbread
- cocket-bread
- corn bread, cornbread
- corn rye bread
- court holy bread
- cracked-wheat bread
- cracker bread
- cream of tartar bread
- crisp bread, crispbread
- Cuban bread
- cuckoo bread
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- curry bread
- daily bread
- dark bread
- date bread
- date-nut bread
- dika bread
- dole bread
- dry bread
- egg bread
- eggy bread
- embread
- fairy bread
- fancy bread
- flat bread, flatbread
- focaccia bread
- French bread
- fried bread
- fry bread, frybread
- full of bread
- garlic bread
- gingerbread
- gluten bread
- God's bread
- Graham bread
- granary bread
- Gyeongju bread
- hard bread
- hare's bread
- have one's bread buttered for life
- haver bread
- hog's bread
- holy bread
- horse-bread
- Hottentot's bread
- household bread
- Hwangnam bread
- in bad bread
- in-bread
- inbread
- Indian bread
- in good bread
- Irish soda bread
- Italian bread
- Jewish rye bread
- John's bread
- Kaffir bread, kaffir bread
- know which side one's bread is buttered (on)
- lava bread, laver bread, laverbread
- light bread
- limpa bread
- liquid bread
- loaf bread
- loaf of bread
- mandel bread
- marble rye bread
- mealie bread
- melon bread
- monkey bread, monkey's bread
- moulding of cockle bread, moulding of cocklety bread
- multigrain bread
- native bread
- new bread
- nut bread
- 'od's bread
- olive bread
- onion bread
- pan bread
- pilot bread
- pita bread, pitta bread
- plain bread
- pocket bread
- potato bread
- Pugliese bread
- pumpernickel bread
- pumpkin bread
- raised bread
- quick bread
- raisin bread
- ravel bread, ravelled bread
- riddle-bread
- Russian black bread
- Russian Easter bread
- rye bread
- sacramental bread
- sad bread
- Saint John's bread, St John's bread
- salt-rising bread
- sausage bread
- schiacciata bread
- science bread
- sea bread
- Seminole bread
- shew-bread, shewbread, show-bread, showbread
- ship bread
- shortbread
- singing bread
- skillet bread
- skillet corn bread
- sliced bread
- soda bread
- sour bread, sourbread
- sourdough bread
- sow bread, sow-bread, sowbread
- spoon bread, spoonbread
- sugar-bread
- sunflower bread
- Swedish limpa bread
- Swedish rye bread
- sweet bread
- sweetbread
- sweetcorn bread
- sweet rye bread
- swine-bread
- take bread and salt
- take the bread out of someone's mouth
- tea-bread
- temse bread, temsed bread
- therf-bread
- tiger bread
- to-bread
- twice-baked bread
- unleavened bread
- Veda bread
- wastel bread
- wheat bread
- white bread
- whole-grain bread, wholegrain bread
- whole meal bread, whole-meal bread, wholemeal bread
- whole wheat bread, whole-wheat bread, wholewheat bread
- yeast bread
- zatar bread
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Verb
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs
Derived terms
Translations
to bread
See also
Anagrams
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *braudan, whence also Old Frisian brād (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon brōd (Dutch brood), Old High German brōt (German Brot), Old Norse and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).
Pronunciation
Noun
brēad n.
- bit, piece, morsel
- bread (foodstuff)
Descendants
Spanish
Verb
bread (infinitive brear)
- (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of brear.
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Bread is a
staple food prepared by
cooking a
dough of
flour and
water and often additional ingredients. Doughs are usually
baked, but in some cuisines breads are steamed (e.g.,
mantou), fried (e.g.,
puri), or baked on an unoiled
frying pan (e.g.,
tortillas). It may be
leavened or unleavened (e.g.
matzo).
Salt,
fat and
leavening agents such as
yeast and
baking soda are common ingredients, though bread may contain other ingredients, such as
milk,
egg,
sugar,
spice,
fruit (such as
raisins),
vegetables (such as
onion),
nuts (such as
walnuts) or
seeds (such as
poppy). Referred to colloquially as the "staff of life", bread has been prepared for at least 30,000 years. The development of leavened bread can probably also be traced to prehistoric times. Sometimes, the word
bread refers to a sweetened loaf cake, often containing appealing ingredients like
dried fruit,
chocolate chips, nuts or spices, such as
pumpkin bread,
banana bread or
gingerbread.
