eat the bread of idleness in English

Forms: eat the bread of idleness [present, singular, third-person], eating the bread of idleness [participle, present], ate the bread of idleness [past], eaten the bread of idleness [participle, past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|eat the bread of idleness|eating the bread of idleness|ate the bread of idleness|eaten the bread of idleness}} eat the bread of idleness (third-person singular simple present eat the bread of idleness, present participle eating the bread of idleness, simple past ate the bread of idleness, past participle eaten the bread of idleness)

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eat the bread of idleness",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eating the bread of idleness",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ate the bread of idleness",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eaten the bread of idleness",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eat the bread of idleness",
        "2": "eating the bread of idleness",
        "3": "ate the bread of idleness",
        "4": "eaten the bread of idleness"
      },
      "expansion": "eat the bread of idleness (third-person singular simple present eat the bread of idleness, present participle eating the bread of idleness, simple past ate the bread of idleness, past participle eaten the bread of idleness)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bible",
          "orig": "en:Bible",
          "parents": [
            "Books",
            "Christianity",
            "Judaism",
            "Literature",
            "Mass media",
            "Abrahamism",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Media",
            "Religion",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned."
      ],
      "id": "en-eat_the_bread_of_idleness-en-verb-3MVIefMw",
      "links": [
        [
          "biblical",
          "Bible"
        ],
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "consume",
          "consume"
        ],
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "personally",
          "personally"
        ],
        [
          "earned",
          "earned"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, obsolete, biblical) To eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biblical",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "eat the bread of idleness"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eat the bread of idleness",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eating the bread of idleness",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ate the bread of idleness",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eaten the bread of idleness",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eat the bread of idleness",
        "2": "eating the bread of idleness",
        "3": "ate the bread of idleness",
        "4": "eaten the bread of idleness"
      },
      "expansion": "eat the bread of idleness (third-person singular simple present eat the bread of idleness, present participle eating the bread of idleness, simple past ate the bread of idleness, past participle eaten the bread of idleness)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Bible"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biblical",
          "Bible"
        ],
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "consume",
          "consume"
        ],
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "personally",
          "personally"
        ],
        [
          "earned",
          "earned"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, obsolete, biblical) To eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biblical",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "eat the bread of idleness"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"eat the bread of idleness" meaning in English

Verb