Word.ws English Dictionary

bread of life

bread of life noun: anything which is regarded as a source or inspiration of spiritual nourishment.

Noun

bread of life (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Anything which is regarded as a source or inspiration of spiritual nourishment.
    • […]if we could look with the eye of faith, we should see that their living and dying has been bread of life to those they left behind.1862, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr's Island

Origin of bread of life

From the biblical Bread of Life Discourse.

Questions about bread of life

What does bread of life mean?
Bread of life means anything which is regarded as a source or inspiration of spiritual nourishment.
What part of speech is bread of life?
Bread of life is a noun.

Words near bread of life in the dictionary

  1. bread mold
  2. bread molds
  3. bread mould
  4. bread moulds
  5. bread of affliction
  6. bread of life
  7. bread of wheat
  8. bread palm
  9. bread pan
  10. bread pans
  11. bread pill

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bread of life (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bread of life.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bread_of_life. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.