bread
Plural: breads
Noun
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- informal terms for money
- A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
- Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- Any variety of bread.
- Money.
- Breadth.
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Verb
Verb Forms: breaded, breading, breads
- To coat food with breadcrumbs before cooking.
- cover with bread crumbs
- "bread the pork chops before frying them"
- To coat with breadcrumbs.
- To form in meshes; net.
Examples
- breaded fish
- He decided to BREAD his letters with a challenging word, hoping it would stick.
- My mother used to send me for the bread.
- Some breads are harder and drier than others.
- We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternatively, 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. Possibly a doublet of broa. Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).
Synonyms
boodle, breadstuff, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, staff of life, sugar, wampum, Bugs Bunny, ackers, bees and honey, blunt, brass, bread, bread and honey, cake, cheddar, cheese, ching, coin, cream, currency, dosh, fedi, feds, finances, flizz, flow, funding, funds, gravy, gwolla, gwop, jack, legal tender, lovely jubbly, mazuma, means, money, moola, mozzarella, muck, oof, ooftish, paper, rhino, scrilla, shrapnel, smackeroonies, smackeroos, smackers, spend, spondulicks, swag, wonga, yenom
Scrabble Score: 8
bread: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbread: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bread: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary