Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense breads, present participle breading, past tense, past participle breaded
1. variable noun
Bread is a very common food made from flour, water, and yeast.
...a loaf of bread.
...bread and butter.
There is more fibre in wholemeal bread than in white bread.
2. to know what side your bread is buttered on
3. uncountable noun [usually with poss]
If you earn your bread doing a particular job or activity, you earn your money doing it.
[informal]
There's not a living soul in Colorado who doesn't depend for his bread on silver.
4. verb [usually passive]
If food such as fish or meat is breaded, it is covered in tiny pieces of dry bread called breadcrumbs. It can then be fried or grilled.
It is important that food be breaded just minutes before frying. [beVERB-ed]
breadedadjective
...breaded fish.
More Synonyms of bread
bread in British English
(brɛd)
noun
1.
a food made from a dough of flour or meal mixed with water or milk, usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
2.
necessary food; nourishment
give us our daily bread
3. a slang word for money
4. Christianity
a small loaf, piece of bread, or wafer of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist
5. bread and circuses
6. break bread
7. cast one's bread upon the waters
8. know which side one's bread is buttered
9. take the bread out of someone's mouth
verb
10. (transitive)
to cover with breadcrumbs before cooking
breaded veal
Word origin
Old English brēad; related to Old Norse braud, Old Frisian brād, Old High German brōt
bread in American English
(brɛd)
noun
1.
a.
a food baked from a leavened, kneaded dough made with flour or meal, water, yeast, etc.
b.
a similar food, as matzo, that is not leavened and so remains flat when baked
2.
any baked food like bread but made with a batter
quick breads, corn bread
3.
food generally
4.
the means of living; livelihood
to earn one's bread
5. Slang
money
verb transitive
6.
to cover with bread crumbs before cooking
Idioms:
bread and butter
break bread
cast one's bread upon the waters
know which side one's bread is buttered on
Word origin
ME bred < OE bread, crumb, morsel < IE *bhreu-, var. of *bhereu-, to ferment < base *bher-, well up, seethe > brew, burn1, L fervere, to boil
bread in Hospitality
(brɛd)
noun
(Hospitality (hotel): Food and drink, breakfast)
Bread is a very common food made from flour, water, and usually yeast.
He wants a ham and salad sandwich on brown bread.
We bake our own bread using good quality flour.
Do not put a whole loaf of bread on the table, just slices.
More idioms containing
bread
your bread and butter
know which side your bread is buttered on
cast your bread upon the waters
bread and circuses
the best thing since sliced bread
Examples of 'bread' in a sentence
bread
Voss and the chauffeur drank a coffee in the canteen and ate bread and eggs.
Robert Wilson THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (2002)
The women at the side of the road were already packing up their long oblong loaves of sweet Ghanaian bread.
Robert Wilson INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (2002)
Think rich and you make money, think poor and someone steals your loaf of bread.
Anita Anderson SOMEBODY (2002)
Two apples, jam, some bread that would toast up nicely once he scraped off a little mold.
Greg Bear DEAD LINES (2002)
Word lists with
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In other languages
bread
British English: bread /brɛd/ NOUN
Bread is a food made from flour, water, and often yeast.
...a loaf of bread.
American English: bread
Arabic: خُبْز
Brazilian Portuguese: pão
Chinese: 面包
Croatian: kruh
Czech: chléb
Danish: brød
Dutch: brood
European Spanish: pan
Finnish: leipä
French: pain
German: Brot
Greek: ψωμί
Italian: pane
Japanese: パン
Korean: 식빵
Norwegian: brød
Polish: chleb
European Portuguese: pão
Romanian: pâine
Russian: хлеб
Latin American Spanish: pan
Swedish: bröd
Thai: ขนมปัง
Turkish: ekmek
Ukrainian: хліб
Vietnamese: bánh mì
All related terms of 'bread'
bread bin
A bread bin is a wooden , metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
nan bread
(in Indian cookery ) a slightly leavened bread in a large flat leaf shape
rye bread
Rye bread is brown bread made with rye flour .
Arab bread
a flat rounded slightly leavened bread , originally from the Middle East, with a hollow inside like a pocket , which can be filled with food
billy-bread
bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
black bread
a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
bread flour
wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten
bread line
a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
bread mold
any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans ) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
bread mould
a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans , occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
bread plate
A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal .
bread roll
a small piece of bread dough made into a circular shape and baked
bread sauce
a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry , esp chicken
bread shop
a baker's shop
break bread
to eat a meal, esp with others
brown bread
bread made with wholemeal flour , or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
corn bread
a baked or fried flat bread made with cornmeal and, variously, milk or water, flour , eggs, sugar, etc.
fairy bread
slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar , served as a children’s snack
Greek bread
a flat rounded slightly leavened bread , originally from the Middle East, with a hollow inside like a pocket , which can be filled with food
light bread
bread made of wheat flour with yeast as a leavening agent
Māori bread
bread made with fermented potato yeast
pita bread
a flat rounded slightly leavened bread , originally from the Middle East , with a hollow inside like a pocket , which can be filled with food
pitta bread
a flat rounded slightly leavened bread , originally from the Middle East , with a hollow inside like a pocket , which can be filled with food
pone bread
bread made of maize
quick bread
any bread , as muffins or corn bread, leavened with baking powder, soda , etc. so that it may be baked as soon as the batter or dough is mixed
soda bread
a type of bread leavened with sodium bicarbonate combined with milk and cream of tartar
spoon bread
a soft, light, moist bread made of cornmeal , eggs, milk , shortening , and, usually, baking powder , and served with a spoon
white bread
bread that is white in colour through having been made from bleached or bolted flour
anadama bread
a kneaded yeast bread containing cornmeal and, usually, molasses
bread basket
If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
bread pudding
a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked , usually eaten cold
French bread
French bread is white bread which is baked in long, thin loaves .
garlic bread
bread (esp French or Italian ) topped with garlic and butter or oil
gluten bread
bread made from flour containing a high proportion of gluten
Granary bread
bread made from Granary flour
Indian bread
bread made from cornmeal
monkey bread
the gourdlike fruit of the baobab tree
raisin bread
bread baked with raisins in it
sliced bread
bread that you buy ready-sliced
bread poultice
a poultice made from breadcrumbs
leavened bread
bread that contains a raising agent , such as yeast
wheatgerm bread
bread made with wheat germ
Boston brown bread
a dark, sweetened , steamed bread made of cornmeal , rye or wheat flour , etc., and molasses
bread and butter
Something that is the bread and butter of a person or organization is the activity or work that provides the main part of their income .
bread and circuses
used to describe a situation in which a government tries to take attention away from real problems or issues , by providing people with things which seem to make their lives more enjoyable
bread and honey
money
monkey bread tree
a bombacaceous tree, Adansonia digitata , native to Africa, that has a very thick trunk , large white flowers, and a gourdlike fruit with an edible pulp called monkey bread
Saint John's bread
an evergreen leguminous Mediterranean tree, Ceratonia siliqua , with compound leaves and edible pods
salt-rising bread
bread that is leavened by a fermented salted cornmeal batter