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breade

breade is the obsolete spelling of bread.

Meaning of bread

Noun (1)

bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)

  1. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
    1. (especially) Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
      • We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
  2. 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
  3. (countable) Any variety of bread.
    • Some breads are harder and drier than others.
  4. (Cockney, US, slang) 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

Noun (2)

bread (plural breads)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete) Breadth.

See all 9 meanings of bread

Forms of breade

pluralbreades

Questions about breade

What is breade the obsolete spelling of?
Breade is the obsolete spelling of bread.

Words near breade in the dictionary

  1. breadcrusts
  2. breadcutter
  3. breadcutter choke
  4. breadcutter chokes
  5. breadcutters
  6. breade
  7. breadearner
  8. breadearners
  9. breadearning
  10. breaded
  11. breaden

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