bread — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   I eat bread for breakfast.

2. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • especially
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.

   My mother used to send me for the bread.

   More examples (1)

   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 dry bread and some hardtack.

3. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   staff of life

   Examples

   Give us this day our daily bread.

4. Any variety of bread.

   Usage

   • Countable

   Examples

   Some breads are harder and drier than others.

5. Money.

   Usage

   • Cockney
   • US usage
   • Countable
   • Slang
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare.

   […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.

   More examples (3)

   And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"

   Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get our bread.

   Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.

Verb

1. To coat with breadcrumbs.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Related words

   loaf

   Examples

   breaded fish

Noun

1. Breadth.

   Usage

   • Scotland
   • UK usage
   • dialectal
   • Obsolete

Verb

1. To form in meshes; net.

   Usage

   • Transitive

Noun

1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Noun

1. food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

   Synonyms

   breadstuffstaff of life

   Broader terms

   baked goodsstarches

2. informal terms for money

   Synonyms

   boodlecabbageclamsdinerodoughgeltkalelettucelollylucrelootmoolahpelfscratchshekelssimoleonssugarwampum

   Broader terms

   money

Verb

1. cover with bread crumbs

   Broader terms

   cover

   Examples

   bread the pork chops before frying them