Bread

Word BREAD
Character 5
Hyphenation bread
Pronunciations /bɹeːd/

Definitions and meanings of "Bread"

What do we mean by bread?

A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked. noun

Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life. noun

Something that nourishes; sustenance. noun

Means of support; livelihood. noun

Money. noun

To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking. transitive verb

In Cookery, to prepare with grated bread; cover with white of eggs and bread-crumbs.

To make broad; spread.

In net-making, to form in meshes: net. Also breathe, brede.

A piece of embroidery; a braid. noun

Breadth. Also brede. noun

To clean by rubbing with dry bread or with a bread-crust, as a drawing.

To provide with daily bread.

A kind of food made of the flour or meal of some species of grain, by kneading it (with the addition of a little salt, and sometimes sugar) into a dough, yeast being commonly added to cause fermentation or “lightness,” and then baking it. noun

Figuratively, food or sustenance in general. noun

(b In New England, wheaten or rye bread containing an admixture of Indian meal: a variety of it is called specifically Boston brown bread. noun

To spread. transitive verb

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking. transitive verb

A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

Any variety of bread.

Money.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Bread

The word "bread" in example sentences

Prepare the roasting tin by buttering a slice of bread and laying the pheasant on its side on the slice of bread***. ❋ Unknown (2006)

All bread is better, if naturally sweet, without the soda; but _sour bread_ you should never eat, if you desire good health. ❋ Mrs. F.L. Gillette (N/A)

You have got its corn laws repealed for it; try if you cannot get corn laws established for it dealing in a better bread; —bread made of that old enchanted Arabian grain, the Sesame, which opens doors; —doors not of robbers’, but of Kings’ Treasuries. ❋ Unknown (1909)

If the alum be omitted, the bread has a slight yellowish grey hue -- as may be seen in the instance of what is called _home-made bread_, of private families. ❋ Friedrich Christian Accum (1803)

_bread_, whereas, when other leavening agents are used, the bread is referred to as _hot bread_, or _quick bread_, as is fully explained in another Section. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it (_the earth_) bring forth and bud (_not first bud, bear seed, and then bring forth_), that it (_the earth_) may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater (_man being the only sower of seed and eater of bread_): so shall my Word be (_the Word of ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)

"Ah!" she said, speaking in a terrible voice, "you knew, you must have known -- friends and cousins and brothers, ay, daughters too -- that bread -- _bread_! ❋ Various (N/A)

I have a zucchini and chocolate bread I have recently become fond of and I must say that this pumpkin bread is now going to make an appearance at my home! ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think the "mountain bread" is identified as Armenian, and it really is super-thin. ❋ Michele (2007)

Needless to say, whole wheat/multigrain bread is more nutritious than white bread. ❋ Nupur (2007)

Whole-grain bread is the bomb, but only when it is good. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The word bread comes from a Germanic root, and originally meant a piece or bit of a loaf, with loaf meaning the leavened, baked substance itself. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

It will be well to note this fact, for in all cases throughout these cookery lessons yeast, or leavened, bread is always meant when the term bread is used alone. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

A couple days ago while I was waiting for some Golden Raisin with Whole Wheat to proof, I was paging through Bread, and stopped to read the side bar on the title bread above. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I figured he must have watched too many American movies., using the slang "bread," like "dough" in an earlier era. ❋ Lea Lane (2011)

In Mexican homes, the bread is a traditional treat on Epiphany when it is enjoyed with friends and family over a frothy cup of hot chocolate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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