bread
/bɹɛd/
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Early/brɛd/
bread noun: a foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

Noun (1)
bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)
- A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- Give us this day our daily bread.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:11
- Synonyms:
- staff of life
- 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.1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, pages 3–4
- […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals
- Synonyms:
- ackers, bees and honey, blunt, bones, brass, bread and honey, Bugs Bunny, cake, cheddar, cheese
Verb (1)
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- To coat with breadcrumbs.
- breaded fish
Noun (2)
bread (plural breads)
Verb (2)
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- To form in meshes; net.
Noun (3)
bread (plural breads)
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
bread meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bread in Hindi
- baked dough made from cereals
- रोटी roṭī, नान nān, ब्रेड breḍ
bread in Tamil
- baked dough made from cereals
- ரொட்டி roṭṭi, பிரெட் pireṭ
bread in Marathi
- baked dough made from cereals
- रोटी roṭī, भाकरी bhākrī, पाव pāv, ब्रेड breḍ
bread in Urdu
- baked dough made from cereals
- روٹی roṭī, نان nān
More languagesFewer languages
- bread in Bengali
- রুটি ruṭi, পাঁউরুটি pãuruṭi, লোফ lōph, ফুলুস phulus
- bread in Telugu
- బ్రెడ్ breḍ, బ్రెడ్డు breḍḍu, రొట్టె roṭṭe
- bread in Malayalam
- റൊട്ടി ṟoṭṭi, അപൂപം apūpaṁ
- bread in Kannada
- ಬ್ರೆಡ್ breḍ, ರೊಟ್ಟಿ roṭṭi
- bread in Punjabi
- ਰੋਟੀ roṭī, روٹی pnb
- bread in Gujarati
- રોટલી roṭlī
- bread in Odia
- ରୁଟି ruṭi
- bread in Sanskrit
- रोटी roṭī
- bread in Sinhala
- පාන් pān
- bread in Nepali
- रोटी roṭī
- bread in Pashto
- ډوډۍ ḍoḍëy
- bread in Tagalog
- tinapay
- bread in Arabic
- خُبْز ḵubz, عيش ʕēš, خُبز ḵubuz, خبز ḵobz
- bread in Malay
- roti
- bread in Indonesian
- roti
- bread in Persian
- نَان nān, نان nân, نون nun, چُرَک čorak
- bread in Thai
- ขนมปัง kà-nǒm-bpang, ปัง bpang
- bread in Vietnamese
- bánh mì, bánh mỳ, bánh tây, bột
- bread in Myanmar
- ပေါင်မုန့် paungmun.
Examples of bread in a sentence
- Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"1973, Billy Joel, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), performed by Billy Joel:
- Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get our bread.2000, Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Tyrone:
- Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson...
Synonyms of bread
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Forms of bread
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | breads |
| alternative form (obsolete) | breade |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | breads |
| present participle | breading |
| past participle | breaded |
| past | breaded |
| alternative form | breathe |
| alternative form | brede |
Origin of bread
From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”), from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). 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. Possibly a doublet of broa. Cognates Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Yola breed (“bread”), North Frisian bruad, Bruar, brüüdj (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brood (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Alemannic German brot, broud, bruat, bròt, bröt (“bread”), Cimbrian proat, pròat (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), German Low German Brod, Brood, Broot, Brot, Bräot (“bread”), Limburgish broed (“bread”), Luxembourgish Brout (“bread”), Mòcheno proat (“bread”), Vilamovian brūt (“bread; loaf”), Yiddish ברויט (broyt, “bread”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål brød (“bread”), Elfdalian broð (“bread”), Faroese breyð (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Norn brau, brow (“bread”), Norwegian Nynorsk braud...
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”).
Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).
Words formed from bread
- breaded
- breading
- breadth
- waybread
- adobe bread
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- arval-bread
- ash bread
- as I live by bread
- bake 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
- bread bag
- breadbag
- 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 Book
- bread bowl
- bread box
- breadbox
- bread brake
Phrases with bread
- bread god
- bread pan
- bread tab
- bread tag
- bread tie
- dog bread
- dry bread
- egg bread
- fry bread
- gut bread
- new bread
- nut bread
174 more phrasesFewer phrases
- pan bread
- rye bread
- sad bread
- sea bread
- sow bread
- tea bread
- beer bread
- bread bags
- bread bins
- bread cake
- bread clip
- bread dust
- bread heel
- bread line
- bread meal
- bread mold
- bread palm
- bread pans
- bread pill
- bread roll
- bread soda
- bread soup
- bread tabs
- bread tags
- bread ties
- bread tree
- bread unit
- burn bread
- bush bread
- chub bread
- coco bread
- corn bread
- dark bread
- date bread
- dika bread
- dole bread
- eggy bread
- flat bread
- hard bread
- Holy Bread
- lava bread
- loaf bread
- milk bread
- oven bread
- pita bread
- shew bread
- ship bread
- show bread
- soda bread
- sour bread
- Yule bread
- altar bread
- black bread
- bread bowls
- bread boxes
- bread cakes
- bread clips
- bread crumb
- bread dough
- bread flake
- bread flour
- bread jelly
- bread knife
- bread lines
- bread maker
- bread molds
- bread mould
- bread pills
- bread rolls
- Bread Santa
- bread sauce
- bread study
- bread trade
- bread trees
- bread units
- bread wheat
- break bread
- broke bread
- brown bread
- burns bread
- burnt bread
- cloud bread
- crazy bread
- crisp bread
- Cuban bread
- curry bread
- daily bread
- fairy bread
- fancy bread
- fried bread
- God's bread
- hardo bread
- haver bread
- heavy bread
- hog's bread
- kafir bread
- lardy bread
- laver bread
- light bread
- limpa bread
- logan bread
- melon bread
- music bread
- oaten bread
- olive bread
- onion bread
- pilot bread
- pitta bread
- plain bread
- quick bread
- ravel bread
- spoon bread
- sweet bread
- temse bread
- tiger bread
- wheat bread
- white bread
- yeast bread
- Afghan bread
- banana bread
- barley bread
- batter bread
- bread boards
- bread buckle
- bread cheese
- bread crumbs
- bread doughs
- bread flours
- bread knives
- bread makers
- bread moulds
- bread powder
- bread sauces
- bread slicer
- bread ticket
- breaks bread
- broken bread
- burned bread
- butter bread
- cuckoo bread
- Essene bread
- famine bread
- finger bread
- French bread
- garlic bread
- gluten bread
- graham bread
- hare's bread
- in bad bread
- Indian bread
- kaffir bread
- lamb's bread
- liquid bread
- mandel bread
- mealie bread
- monkey bread
- native bread
- pocket bread
- potato bread
- raised bread
- raisin bread
- sliced bread
- temsed bread
- wastel bread
- zaatar bread
- aerated bread
- Anadama bread
- artisan bread
- Barbari bread
- biscuit bread
- bread baskets
- bread beetles
- bread buckles
- bread chipper
Words that rhyme with bread
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- dread
- wed
- ahead
- sled
- embed
- in one's stead
- inbred
- ped
- zed
- bestead
- cred
- ed
- fed
- med
- undead
- abed
- bedspread
- DMZ
- Fred
- led
- Prussian red
- retread
- spoon-fed
- unwed
- z
- antired
- aspread
- bark bed
- behead
- bested
- bled
- block head
- bred
- cabin bed
- common thread
- Cow Head
- Crow Head
- faned
- fled
- freedom bread
- fugged
- instead
- ked
- knead
- misled
- ned
- pled
- read
Questions about bread
- What does bread mean?
- Bread means a foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- What is bread in Hindi?
- Bread in Hindi is रोटी (roṭī), नान (nān), ब्रेड (breḍ). See Bread meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use bread in a sentence?
- Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
- What part of speech is bread?
- Bread can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bread?
- Bread is pronounced /brɛd/ (Early).
- What is the plural of bread?
- The plural of bread is breads.
Words near bread in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bread (page history and authors); ରୁଟି (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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