Also spelled breead

US /brɛd/ UK /bɹɛd/
verb noun Freq #1866

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.

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Synonyms
1 noun · a common food made by... breadstuff
Word family
Forms breadlessbreads
Derived forms arval-breadbee-breadbeebreadbread-and-butterbread-and-cheesebread-artistbread-bagbread-bargebread-basketbread-bearerbread-berrybread-controller

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…

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