bread

Pronunciation: /brɛd/

The English word “bread” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

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

To coat with breadcrumbs.
To form in meshes; net.

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 (“bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”), from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to…

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