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.

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Simplified etymology

Bread is an Old English word, although loaf was then the usual term for the food and later narrowed to mean a shaped mass of bread. Because bread was a staple, its name came to represent food or sustenance generally and later inspired breadwinner and breadline; its slang sense “money” arose in the United States in the 1930s.

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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