bread

Meanings

Noun

• A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
• Any variety of bread.
• Money.
• Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
• Breadth.
• A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Verb

• to coat with breadcrumbs
• To make broad; spread.
• To form in meshes; net.

Related

Similar words

• dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga

Narrower meaning words

• aerated bread
• Afghan bread
• altar bread
• Amish friendship bread
• ammunition bread
• Anadama bread
• apple potato bread
• Armenian cracker bread
• artisan bread
• bake someone's bread
• banana bread
• Barbari bread
• barley bread
• batter bread
• beer bread
• biscuit bread
• black bread
• blackfellow's bread
• Boston brown bread
• brown bread
• bush bread
• caraway seed bread
• chub bread
• ciabatta bread
• cinnamon bread
• corn bread
• cornbread
• corn rye bread
• court holy bread
• cracked-wheat bread
• cracker bread
• crisp bread
• crispbread
• Cuban bread
• cuckoo bread
• curry bread
• dark bread
• date bread
• date-nut bread
• dika bread
• dole bread
• dry bread
• egg bread
• eggy bread
• fairy bread
• fancy bread
• flat bread
• flatbread
• focaccia bread
• French bread
• fried bread
• fry bread
• frybread
• garlic bread
• gluten bread
• God's bread
• Graham bread
• granary bread
• Gyeongju bread
• hard bread
• hare's bread
• haver bread
• hog's bread
• holy bread
• Hottentot's bread
• household bread
• Hwangnam bread
• Indian bread
• Irish soda bread
• Italian bread
• Jewish rye bread
• John's bread
• Kaffir bread
• kaffir bread
• lava bread
• laver bread
• laverbread
• light bread
• limpa bread
• liquid bread
• loaf bread
• mandel bread
• marbled rye bread
• mealie bread
• melon bread
• monkey bread
• monkey's bread
• multigrain bread
• native bread
• new bread
• nut bread
• 'od's bread
• olive bread
• onion bread
• pan bread
• pilot bread
• pita bread
• pitta bread
• plain bread
• pocket bread
• potato bread
• Pugliese bread
• pumpernickel bread
• pumpkin bread
• raised bread
• quick bread
• raisin bread
• ravel bread
• ravelled bread
• Russian black bread
• Russian Easter bread
• rye bread
• sacramental bread
• sad bread
• Saint John's bread
• St John's bread
• salt-rising bread
• sausage bread
• schiacciata bread
• science bread
• sea bread
• Seminole bread
• shewbread
• ship bread
• showbread
• singing bread
• skillet bread
• skillet corn bread
• sliced bread
• soda bread
• sour bread
• sourbread
• sourdough bread
• spoon bread
• spoonbread
• sunflower bread
• Swedish limpa bread
• Swedish rye bread
• en
• sweetcorn bread
• sweet rye bread
• temse bread
• temsed bread
• tiger bread
• twice-baked bread
• unleavened bread
• Veda bread
• wastel bread
• wheat bread
• whole-grain bread
• wholegrain bread
• whole meal bread
• whole-meal bread
• wholemeal bread
• whole wheat bread
• whole-wheat bread
• wholewheat bread
• yeast bread
• zatar bread

Origin

• From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad ("fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread"), from Proto-Germanic *braudą ("cooked food, leavened bread"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrew- (see brew). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- ("to split, beat, hew, struggle") (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two.
• Cognate with Scots breid ("bread"), Saterland Frisian Brad ("bread"), West Frisian brea ("bread"), Dutch brood ("bread"), German Brot ("bread"), Danish and Norwegian brød ("bread"), Swedish bröd ("bread"), Icelandic brauð ("bread"), Albanian brydh ("I make crumbly, friable, soft"), Latin frustum ("crumb").
• Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn, borrowed from Old French pain.
• From Middle English brede, from Old English brǣdu ("breadth, width, extent"), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ ("breadth"). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Dutch breedte ("breadth"), German Breite ("breadth"), Swedish bredd ("breadth"), Icelandic breidd ("breadth").
• From Middle English breden, from Old English brǣdan ("to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow"), from Proto-Germanic *braidijaną ("to make broad, broaden").
• Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan.