1. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked. 2a. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life: “If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second” (Edward Bellamy). b. Something that nourishes; sustenance: “My bread shall be the anguish of my mind” (Edmund Spenser). 3a. Means of support; livelihood: earn one's bread.b.Slang Money.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: bread·ed, bread·ing, breads To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking: breaded the fish fillets.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old English brad. See bhreu- in Appendix I. N., sense 3b, possibly from Cockney rhyming slang bread and honey.
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ad. See bhreu- in Appendix I. N., sense 3b, possibly from Cockney rhyming slang bread and honey.
