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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (Australia) enPR: brĕd, IPA: /bɹɛd/, X-SAMPA: /brEd/ or IPA: /breːd/, X-SAMPA: /bre:d/
- (UK, US) enPR: brĕd, IPA: /bɹɛd/, X-SAMPA: /brEd/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛd
- Homophone: bred
Etymology 1 [edit]
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- ("to boil, seethe"; see brew). An alternative etymology derives bread from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), 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 brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”). Indoeuropean cognates include Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”).
Noun [edit]
bread (countable and uncountable; plural breads)
- (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals
- (countable) Any variety of bread
- (slang) money
Synonyms [edit]
- (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, spondulicks, wonga
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Verb [edit]
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From Middle English brede, from Old English brǣdu (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).
Noun [edit]
bread (plural breads)
Etymology 3 [edit]
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”).
Verb [edit]
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.
Etymology 4 [edit]
Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan.
Alternative forms [edit]
Verb [edit]
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive) To form in meshes; net.
Noun [edit]
bread (plural breads)
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
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Old English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *braudą, whence also Old Frisian brād (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon brōd (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German brōt (German Brot), Old Norse and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /bræːɑd/
Noun [edit]
brēad n
Descendants [edit]
- English: bread
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
bread (infinitive brear)
- English terms with homophones
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
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- English slang
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- English terms with obsolete senses
- British English
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- Scottish English
- 1000 English basic words
- en:Breads
- en:Foods
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English nouns
- ang:Foods
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish verb imperative forms
- Spanish verb plural forms
- Spanish verb second-person forms
- Spanish verb affirmative forms
- Spanish verb informal forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar

