Meaning

A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals..

Definitions by Sense

1. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
3. (countable) Any variety of bread.
4. (slang, US or Cockney) Money.
5. (transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.
6. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
7. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.
8. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Example Sentences

Give us this day our daily bread.

Some breads are harder and drier than others.

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.

[…] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.

And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"

Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get our bread.

Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.

breaded fish

Word Forms

• breads
• breade
• breading
• breaded
• breathe
• brede

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