bread

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A common food made by baking flour, water, and usually yeast.

   She bought a fresh loaf of bread from the bakery.

2. 2
   verb

   To cover food with breadcrumbs before cooking.

   He breaded the chicken before frying it.

Common collocations

• bread dough Noun + noun
• raisin bread Noun + noun
• rye bread Noun + noun
• batter bread Noun + noun
• homemade bread Adjective + noun
• moldy bread Adjective + noun
• monkey bread Noun + noun
• wheaten bread Adjective + noun

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.? Proto-Germanic *braudą Proto-West Germanic *braud Old English brēad Middle English bred English bread 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 split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a…

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