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English

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Twoloaves of bread (1).

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishbred,breed, fromOld Englishbrēad(“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), fromProto-West Germanic*braud, fromProto-Germanic*braudą(“cooked food, leavened bread”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰerw-,*bʰrew-(“to boil, seethe”) (seebrew). Alternatively, fromProto-Germanic*braudaz,*brauþaz(“broken piece, fragment”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰera-(“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (seebrittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two. Possibly adoublet ofbroa.

Cognate withScotsbreid(“bread”),North Frisianbruad,Bruar,brüüdj(“bread”),Saterland FrisianBrood(“bread”),West Frisianbrea(“bread”),Cimbrianproat,pròat(“bread”),Dutchbrood(“bread”),GermanBrot(“bread”),LuxembourgishBrout(“bread”),Mòchenoproat(“bread”),Vilamovianbrūt(“bread; loaf”),Yiddishברויט(broyt,“bread”),Danish,Norwegian Bokmål andNorwegian Nynorskbrød(“bread”),Elfdalianbroð(“bread”),Faroesebreyð(“bread”),Icelandicbrauð(“bread”),Swedishbröd(“bread”),Crimean Gothicbroe(“bread”),Albanianbrydh(“I make crumbly, friable, soft”),Latinfrustum(“crumb”). Eclipsed non-nativeMiddle Englishpayn(“bread”), borrowed fromOld Frenchpain(“bread”). In this sense, mostly replacedloaf, which had been the more common term in Old English (seehlaf), a process which similarly occured in other languages such as German.

Noun

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bread (countable anduncountable,pluralbreads)

  1. (uncountable)
    2. Afoodstuff made bybakingdough made fromcereals.
      Hyponyms:tack,biscuit
      1. (especially) Such foodstuff that is not difficult tochew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
        Coordinate terms:tack,biscuit
        We made sandwiches with thebread we bought from the bakery.
        My mother used to send me for thebread.
        • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
          Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of drybread and some hardtack.
    3. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
      Synonym:staff of life
  2. (countable) Any variety of bread.
    Somebreads are harder and drier than others.
  4. (slang, US or Cockney)Money.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:money
    • 1962,James Baldwin,Another Country, New York, N. Y.:The Dial Press, published January1963,pages3–4:
      Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enoughbread on him for a meal or at least subway fare.
    • 1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, inWinds of Change, performed byEric Burdon andThe Animals:
      […] save up all yourbread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.
    • 1973,Billy Joel, “Piano Man”,Billy Joel (music), performed byBilly Joel:
      And they sit at the bar and putbread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"
    • 2000,Darren Aronofsky,Hubert Selby Jr.,Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Tyrone:
      Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get ourbread.
    • 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics),Most Known Unknown‎[2], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
      Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to havebread to get it.
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Translations
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baked dough made from cereals
countable: any variety of bread
slang: money
food, sustenance, support of life, in general
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Verb

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bread (third-person singular simple presentbreads,present participlebreading,simple past and past participlebreaded)

  1. (transitive) Tocoat withbreadcrumbs.
    breaded fish
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Translations
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to bread

See also

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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishbrede(“breadth, width, extent”), fromOld Englishbrǣdu(“breadth, width, extent”), fromProto-Germanic*braidį̄(“breadth”). Cognate withScotsbrede,breid(“breadth”),Dutchbreedte(“breadth”),GermanBreite(“breadth”),Swedishbredd(“breadth”),Icelandicbreidd(“breadth”).

Noun

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bread (pluralbreads)

  1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland)Breadth.
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Etymology 3

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Variant ofbraid, fromMiddle Englishbreden, fromOld Englishbrēdan,breġdan(“to braid”).

Alternative forms

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Verb

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bread (third-person singular simple presentbreads,present participlebreading,simple past and past participlebreaded)

  1. (transitive) To form inmeshes;net.

Noun

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bread (pluralbreads)

  1. A piece ofembroidery; abraid.

References

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  1. ^Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957),English pronunciation 1500-1700‎[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology,Oxford:Clarendon Press, published1968,→OCLC,§ 30,page502.

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Noun

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bread

  1. (Early Middle English)alternative form ofbred(“bread”)

Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromProto-West Germanic*braud, fromProto-Germanic*braudą, whence alsoOld Frisianbrād (West Frisianbrea),Old Saxonbrōd (German Low GermanBroot,Brot),Dutchbrood,Old High Germanbrōt (GermanBrot),Old Norsebrauð andIcelandicbrauð (Swedishbröd).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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brēad n

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

Declension

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singularplural
nominativebrēadbrēadru
accusativebrēadbrēadru
genitivebrēadesbrēada
dativebrēadebrēadum

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Spanish

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Verb

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bread

  1. second-personpluralimperative ofbrear
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