bread

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to cover with bread crumbs

   I bread the pork chops before frying them.

2. 2
   noun

   Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

   Give us this day our daily bread.

3. 3
   noun

   Any variety of bread.

   Some breads are harder and drier than others.

4. 4
   noun

   Money.

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   To coat with breadcrumbs.

   breaded fish

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

   informal terms for money

8. 8
   noun

   A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

Etymology

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…