bread

UK /brɛd/ US /brɛd/

noun 7verb 2

Definitions

noun

A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.

My mother used to send me for the bread.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Any variety of bread.

Some breads are harder and drier than others.

Money.

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.

[…] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.

verb

To coat with breadcrumbs.

breaded fish

noun

Breadth.

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

fresh

hard, mouldy, soggy, stale

The hard bread was difficult to bite through, so I soaked it in soup instead.

crusty

The baker pulled a warm crusty loaf from the oven this morning.

sliced

unleavened

home-baked, home-made

fried

garlic

black, brown, granary, naan, pitta, rye, soda, white, wholemeal

French, Italian, etc.

QUANT

loaf

chunk, crumb, crust, hunk, morsel, piece, slice

He dropped a slice of bread on the kitchen floor.

VERB + BREAD

bake, make

My grandmother makes bread every Saturday morning for the whole family.

cut, slice

butter, put sth on, spread

My daughter likes to spread butter on her bread every morning at breakfast.

toast

BREAD + NOUN

dough

pudding, roll, sauce

bin, knife

PREP

on the ~

I usually put butter and jam on my bread at breakfast.

PHRASES

bread and butter/margarine

My daughter prefers bread and margarine for her breakfast toast instead of jam.

bread and cheese/jam, bread and water

The refugee camp provided the children with bread and cheese for their meals.

bread and wine

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised wit

breadstuff

noun — informal terms for money

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

brown bread

Dead.

I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.

wheat bread

Ellipsis of whole-wheat bread.

Near-synonym: brown bread (whole-wheat bread sense)

white bread

Bread made from white flour.

Yes—just become a Communist, and things get all right. Deny your Christ and they will give you white bread in plenty and clothes to wear—" He would hold his breath, would wonder an

bread and butter

That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.

They will do some machining if you ask them, but sheet metal has always been their bread and butter.

greatest thing since sliced bread

Something amazing, outstanding or praiseworthy, especially a relatively recent invention likely to improve people's lives.

This column is about the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Example Bank

We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.

Wiktionary

My mother used to send me for the bread.

Wiktionary

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 hardta

Wiktionary

breaded fish

Wiktionary

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Tatoeba · #1856

Do you have bread for lunch?

Tatoeba · #15894

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, bread is marked as slang, obsolete, US, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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