bread
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
Other meanings
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Any variety of bread.
“Some breads are harder and drier than others.”
Synonyms
- staff of life
A kind of
- baked goods
Kinds of bread
- brown bread
- roll
- cinnamon bread
- cracked-wheat bread
- dark bread
- flatbread
- garlic bread
- loaf of bread
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "brēad" (fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “bread” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.