daily bread
Syllables: dai·ly breadUK/ˈdeɪli ˌbɹɛd/
daily bread noun: all those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life.
Noun
daily bread (uncountable)
- All those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life.
- to earn one's daily bread
- [Verse] 11. Panem noſtrum ſuperſubſtātialem da nobis hodie. Giue vs this day our daily bread.1599, “S Matthaevs. Cap. VI. [Saint Matthew. Chapter 6.]”, in Eliæ Hutteri [i.e., Elias Hutter], editor, Novvm Testamentvm D[omi]ni N[ost]ri Iesv[s] Christi: Syriacè, Ebraicè, Graecè, Latin...
- All those things, such as regular prayer, worship and meditation, needed to sustain spiritual life.
- I thynke it mete / that euery Chriſten man not only knowe it [the Epistle to the Romans] by rote and with oute the boke / but alſo exerciſe him ſelfe therin euermore continually / as with the dayly brede of the ſoule.1534 November, Willyam Tindale [i.e., William Tyndale], transl., “A Prologe to the Epistle of Paule to the Romayns”, in The Newe Testament […] (Tyndale Bible), Antwerp: […] Marten Emperowr, folio...
- For he [Augustine of Hippo] calleth there the daily bread, which we continually pray for, either corporal bread and meat, which is our daily sustenance for the body, or else the visible sacrament of bread and wine, or the invisible sacraments of God's word and commandments; of the which sacraments...1817, Thomas Cranmer, “[Extracts from An Answer, by the Reverend Father in God, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan, unto a Crafty and Sophisticated Cavillation...
daily bread meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Kannada and Punjabi
daily bread in Hindi
- daily bread, sustenance
- रोज़ी rozī
daily bread in Urdu
- daily bread, sustenance
- رزق rizq
daily bread in Kannada
- ಜೀವನಾಧಾರ
daily bread in Punjabi
- things needed to sustain physical life
- روٹی ٹکر roṭī ṭkr
More languagesFewer languages
- daily bread in Arabic
- رِزْق rizq
- daily bread in Persian
- روزی ruzi
Examples of daily bread in a sentence
- […] I ought never more to repine at my Condition, but to rejoice, and to give daily Thanks for that daily Bread, which nothing but a croud of Wonders could have brought.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam]...
- To be thankful for ſuch good Things as we enjoy; for our Health, and Strength, and daily Bread, and many other Bleſſings, which we are too apt not to conſider as we ought.1797, [John Bowdler], Reform or Ruin: Abridged. In which Every Man may Learn the True State of Things at this Time: And what that Reform...
- Miss Pamela was over-fond of fine clothes, but Miss Pebmarsh, who was giving 'er a 'ome and daily bread, 'adn't much money to spare for fallalery.1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, “The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, →OL:
- Her soul had been baked hard in the fire of adversity, and there was no altering it now; life to her was the hunt for daily bread, and ideas existed for her only as they bore upon that.1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXX, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906...
Origin of daily bread
Possibly a reference to the Lord's Prayer in the Bible, part of which reads in the King James Version: “Give us this day our daily bread” (see Matthew 6:11, and compare Luke 11:3).
Words formed from daily bread
Questions about daily bread
- What does daily bread mean?
- Daily bread means all those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life.
- What is daily bread in Hindi?
- Daily bread in Hindi is रोज़ी (rozī). See Daily bread meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use daily bread in a sentence?
- […] I ought never more to repine at my Condition, but to rejoice, and to give daily Thanks for that daily Bread, which nothing but a croud of Wonders could have brought.
- What part of speech is daily bread?
- Daily bread is a noun.
- How do you pronounce daily bread?
- Daily bread is pronounced /ˈdeɪli ˌbɹɛd/ (UK).
Words near daily bread in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: daily bread (page history and authors); रोज़ी (Hindi) (page history and authors); رزق (Urdu) (page history and authors); daily bread (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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