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breadwinners

breadwinners is the plural of breadwinner.

Meaning of breadwinner

Noun

breadwinner (plural breadwinners)

  1. The primary income-earner in a household.
    • At one side lay the little town of Hollingford, into a street of which Mr. Gibson's front door opened; and delicate columns, and little puffs of smoke were already beginning to rise from many a cottage chimney where some housewife was already up, and preparing breakfast for the bread-winner of the...1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter I
    Synonyms:
    breadearner

Questions about breadwinners

What is breadwinners the plural of?
Breadwinners is the plural of breadwinner.

Words near breadwinners in the dictionary

  1. BreadTuber
  2. BreadTubers
  3. breadwich
  4. breadwiches
  5. breadwinner
  6. breadwinners
  7. breadwinning
  8. breadwort
  9. bready
  10. Breage
  11. break

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