BREAD
bread, breadstuff, staff of life
(noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
(noun) informal terms for money
bread
(verb) cover with bread crumbs; “bread the pork chops before frying them”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)
(uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
(countable) Any variety of bread.
(slang, US) Money.
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Usage notes
• loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread.
Synonyms
• (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga
Hyponyms
• 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
• beer bread
• biscuit bread
• black bread
• blackfellow's bread
• Boston brown bread
• brown bread
• bush bread
• caraway seed bread
• chub bread
• ciabatta bread
• cinnamon bread
• corn bread
• cornbread
• corn rye bread
• 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
• hog's bread
• holy bread
• Hottentot's bread
• household bread
• Hwangnam bread
• Indian bread
• Irish soda bread
• Italian bread
• Jewish rye bread
• John's bread
• Kaffir bread
• kaffir bread
• lava bread
• laver bread
• laverbread
• light bread
• limpa bread
• liquid bread
• loaf bread
• mandel bread
• marbled rye bread
• mealie bread
• melon bread
• monkey bread
• monkey's 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
• 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
• shewbread
• ship bread
• showbread
• singing bread
• skillet bread
• skillet corn bread
• sliced bread
• soda bread
• sour bread
• sourbread
• sourdough bread
• spoon bread
• spoonbread
• 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
• 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
Verb
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
(transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs
Etymology 2
Noun
bread (plural breads)
(obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
Etymology 3
Verb
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
(transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.
Etymology 4
Verb
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
(transitive) To form in meshes; net.
Noun
bread (plural breads)
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Anagrams
• Bader, Beard, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, beard, debar
Source: Wiktionary
Bread, v. t. Etym: [AS. brædan to make broad, to spread. See Broad,
a.]
Definition: To spread. [Obs.] Ray.
Bread, n. Etym: [AS. breád; akin to OFries. brad, OS. br, D. brood,
G. brod, brot, Icel. brau, Sw. & Dan. bröd. The root is probably that
of E. brew. Brew.]
1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening,
kneading, and baking.
Note: Raised bread is made with yeast, salt, and sometimes a little
butter or lard, and is mixed with warm milk or water to form the
dough, which, after kneading, is given time to rise before baking.
– Cream of tartar bread is raised by the action of an alkaline
carbonate or bicarbonate (as saleratus or ammonium bicarbonate) and
cream of tartar (acid tartrate of potassium) or some acid.
– Unleavened bread is usually mixed with water and salt only.
AĂ«rated bread. See under AĂ«rated. Bread and butter (fig.), means of
living.
– Brown bread, Indian bread, Graham bread, Rye and Indian bread.
See Brown bread, under Brown.
– Bread tree. See Breadfruit.
2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11
Bread, v. t. (Cookery)
Definition: To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded
cutlets.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition