breadnoun [ U ]
uk/bred/us/bred/A1 a food made from flour, water, and usually yeast, mixed together and baked:
a slice of bread
a loaf of bread
white/brown bread
wholemeal (US whole -wheat) bread
sliced bread
This bread is fresh/stale.
Do you bake your own bread?
More examples
- Shall I cut you a slice of bread?
- There's nothing better than fresh bread, straight from the oven.
- This bread is completely free from artificial preservatives.
- Do you know a good recipe for wholemeal bread?
- We had a quick meal of bread and soup.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Bread
- bagel
- baguette
- bannock
- bap
- barm cake
- chupatti
- ciabatta
- cob
- corn bread
- cottage loaf
- garlic bread
- Granary Bread
- hallah
- hot cross bun
- loaf
- poppadom
- pumpernickel
- roti
- rye bread
- staff
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Idiom(s)
(your) (daily) bread
bread and circuses
man cannot live by bread alone