bread

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[edit] English

Two loaves of bread (1).
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From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread), from Proto-Germanic *braudan (cooked food, leavened bread), from Proto-Indo-European *bherw-, *bhrew- (to boil, seethe) (see brew). Alternate etymology derives bread from *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), West Frisian brea (bread), Dutch brood (bread), German Brot (bread), Danish brød (bread), Swedish bröd (bread), Icelandic brauð (bread).

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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

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

  1. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs

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From Proto-Germanic *braudan, whence also Old Frisian brād (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon brōd (Dutch brood), Old High German brōt (German Brot), Old Norse and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).

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  • IPA: /bræːɑd/

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brēad n.

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

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bread (infinitive brear)

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