bread
[ bred ]
/ brɛd /
noun
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.
food or sustenance; livelihood: to earn one's bread.
Slang.
money.
Ecclesiastical.
the wafer or bread used in a Eucharistic service.
verb (used with object)
Cookery.
to cover with breadcrumbs or meal.
Idioms for bread
Origin of bread
before 950; 1950–55
for def 3; Middle English
breed, Old English
brēad fragment, morsel, bread; cognate with German
Brot
OTHER WORDS FROM bread
bread·less, adjective bread·less·ness, noun un·bread·ed, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH bread
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British Dictionary definitions for break bread
bread
/ (brɛd) /
noun
verb
(tr)
to cover with breadcrumbs before cooking
breaded veal
Word Origin for bread
Old English
brēad; related to Old Norse
braud, Old Frisian
brād, Old High German
brōt
Idioms and Phrases with break bread (1 of 2)
break bread
Have a meal, eat. For example, It's hard to remain enemies when you've broken bread together. This term occurs in numerous places in the New Testament, where it sometimes means to share bread and other times to distribute food to others. In later usage it came to refer to the sacramental bread of Communion in Christian services. The latter survives in the spiritual hymn, “Let Us Break Bread Together.” [1300s]
Idioms and Phrases with break bread (2 of 2)
bread