bread
- noun
- /brɛd/
- The baker delivered a warm loaf of bread to the market every morning.
- loaf of bread
- bake bread
- bread and butter
It's like a permanent bread drink made from rye bread.
- It's like a permanent bread drink made from rye bread.
- But like Indian naan bread, you have you have the bread.
- And so people were making breads and sweet breads using yeast.
Examples
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Today, Oymyakon has just one food store, which sells bread, milk, horse and reindeer meat, and little else.
Academic text (2011) -
Researchers report that simple bread made with cattail flour doesn't taste so bad.
Academic text (2011) -
But for the most part, bread is pretty simple stuff.
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"Even when it is the worst, we eat better white bread here than at home."
Academic text (1992) -
I brought you some bread.
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We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us for our sins.
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In the morning, the smell of bread toasting wound its way into our room.
Fiction book (1990) -
For breakfast, we got white bread, peanut butter, and marmalade with coffee, but no milk.
Academic text (2008) -
They just have all this delicious bread and some interesting dips.
Synonyms
A shaped piece of food, often bread, baked or formed to slice and eat
A bread made from cornmeal usually served warm with butter
A shaped bread baked as one piece and usually sliced before eating
A soft, light bread made from white wheat flour
A sweet, moist bread made with mashed bananas often served as a snack
A type of bread baked recently that is not stale
A thin, flat bread made from flour and water, often without yeast, like pita or naan
A long crusty white bread like a baguette served with meals
A soft braided egg bread usually eaten on the Jewish Sabbath
Bread made with rye flour that is darker and denser than wheat bread
A flat fried bread made from wheat or corn, often served in Native American communities
A type of bread made from the whole wheat grain that is denser and healthier than white bread
A baked loaf with raisins mixed into the dough, often eaten sliced and toasted
A long crusty loaf of bread made with yeast, not sweet and with tapered ends
A type of bread made from whole wheat flour that is darker and denser than white bread
A dark, dense bread made from rye flour
Food that people bake from dough, like loaves or rolls
A light, soft pale loaf often used for sandwiches and toast
A soft pale bread made from white wheat flour
A moist rye bread that has molasses, spices, and orange flavour from Sweden
A small fluffy bread that uses baking powder and people often eat for breakfast or as a side
Antonyms
Idioms
A very useful new thing that people say is great
To make someone lose the job or money they need to live
To benefit from two people or groups at the same time by being dishonest
- Archaic
Do something kind without expecting anything back, hoping it helps later
- Informal
A small, disappointing thing that does not help enough
Compounds
- US
A flat fried bread made from wheat or corn, often served in Native American communities
Bread made with a natural starter that has a slightly sour taste and a chewy crust
A type of bread made from the whole wheat grain that is denser and healthier than white bread
- UK
A type of bread made from whole wheat flour that is darker and denser than white bread
- UK
A creamy white sauce made from bread and flavored with cloves and onion, served with chicken or turkey
- UK
A plant with three-part heart-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple veins often in damp woods
A sweet moist loaf that has chopped dates and nuts, often eaten as a snack or dessert
- South African
A soft brown paste made from roasted wild mango seeds used as food and to thicken soups
An eight-day Jewish festival in spring that remembers the Israelites leaving Egypt
- US
A sweet pull-apart pastry of baked dough pieces coated in butter, sugar and cinnamon
- South African
A large African tree with a very thick trunk that has fruit with a soft inside that people eat
- NSFW
A climbing plant from South Africa with a large rough root like an elephant's foot
A round loaf made with baking soda and buttermilk, often with raisins or caraway seeds
- Archaic
A very hard plain biscuit that keeps for a long time and sailors use on ships
A white wheat bread made with bacteria that can grow in salty dough and a cornmeal starter
Bread cooked in a skillet over a fire, often made as cornbread or soda bread with ham added
Bread made with a mixture of flour and water that has natural yeast, giving a tangy taste
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Etymology
Bread originally meant 'a piece' or 'a bit' of food in old English, and it came to name the baked loaf we break and share; this is the same root as German Brot, which helps explain why it means the basic food we eat.