bread

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English [edit]

Two loaves of bread (1).
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Pronunciation [edit]

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)

  1. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals
  2. (countable) Any variety of bread
  3. (slang) money
Synonyms [edit]
Usage notes [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from bread
Translations [edit]
baked dough made from cereals
countable: any variety of bread
slang: money
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Verb [edit]

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

  1. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to bread

See also [edit]

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)

  1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.

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)

  1. (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)

  1. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.

Noun [edit]

bread (plural breads)

  1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Anagrams [edit]

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

  1. bit, piece, morsel
  2. bread (foodstuff)

Descendants [edit]

Spanish [edit]

Verb [edit]

bread (infinitive brear)

  1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of brear.
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