bread

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

Any leftover bread can be put into the pudding.

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.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

Give us this day our daily bread.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:11:

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

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.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, pages 3–4:

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

1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals:

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

1973, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), performed by Billy Joel:

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

2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

en-noun

bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)

don't get your meat where you get your bread

know which side one's bread is buttered on

Bislama: bred

→ Big Nambas: p'ret

desctree

Sranan Tongo: brede
Aukan: beele
Saramaccan: bëë́ë
→ Kari'na: perere

Tok Pisin: bret

→ Fiji Hindi: bareed

→ Hausa: burodi

desc

→ Malayalam: ബ്രെഡ് (breḍŭ), ബ്രെഡ്ഡ് (breḍḍŭ)

→ Marshallese: būreej

→ Nupe: bureedi (possibly via Hausa)

→ Yoruba: búrẹ́dì

sai

white bread; broadly those which are not the “leib“

elatis

food, sustenance, support of life, in general

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”).


bread

breaded fish

en-verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

breads (present singular third-person)
breading (participle present)
breaded (participle past)
breaded (past)


bread

(obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.

From Middle English brede (“breadth, width, extent”), from Old English brǣdu (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).


bread

(transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To spread out, extend, spread around.

(intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To spread; extend

From Middle English breden (“to spread”), from Old English brǣdan (“to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow”), from Proto-West Germanic *braidijan, from Proto-Germanic *braidijaną (“to make broad, broaden”).


bread

Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).