bread
Americannoun
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a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
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food or sustenance; livelihood.
to earn one's bread.
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Slang. money.
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Ecclesiastical. the wafer or bread used in a Eucharistic service.
verb (used with object)
idioms
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know which side one's bread is buttered on, to be aware of those things that are to one's own advantage.
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take the bread out of someone's mouth, to deprive someone of livelihood.
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cast one's bread upon the waters, to act generously or charitably with no thought of personal gain.
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break bread,
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to eat a meal, especially in companionable association with others.
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to distribute or participate in Communion.
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noun
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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
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necessary food; nourishment
give us our daily bread
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a slang word for money
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Christianity a small loaf, piece of bread, or wafer of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist
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something offered as a means of distracting attention from a problem or grievance
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See break
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to do good without expectation of advantage or return
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to know what to do in order to keep one's advantages
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to deprive someone of a livelihood
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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have breadedperfect
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has breadedperfect 3rd person singular
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have been breadingperfect progressive
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are breadingprogressive
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am breadingprogressive 1st person singular
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breadssingular 3rd person
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has been breadingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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is breadingprogressive 3rd person singular
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breadingparticiple
Past
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had breadedperfect
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was breadingprogressive singular
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breadedparticiple
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breadedsimple
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were breadingprogressive plural
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had been breadingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of bread
before 950; 1950–55 bread for def. 3; Middle English breed, Old English brēad fragment, morsel, bread; cognate with German Brot
Example Sentences
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BREAD, the name given to the staple food-product prepared by the baking of flour.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
Of this genus is that concealed motion which fermentation produces in the particles that compose flour, which, however scattered, however separated, unite, and form that mass which we call BREAD.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
Dinner was almost over when Dan, still looking hungry, grinned and asked Dave if he was n't going to have some BREAD?
From On Our Selection by Rudd, Steele
BREAD, proportion between the price of, and butchers meat, 140.--
From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by Playfair, William
RYE BREAD, No. 2 Sift three cups of rye flour, three cups of wheat flour and two teaspoons of salt in a bowl.
From The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Greenbaum, Florence Kreisler
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