Breadbasket

Quick meaning: Breadbasket is a noun meaning A basket used for storing or carrying bread.

Meaning

A basket used for storing or carrying bread.

More Meanings

1. (humorous) The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack.
2. (agriculture) A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.

Example Sentences

[I]t is worth noting that if global warming produces a migration of the earth's breadbaskets, then it might damage one country's agriculture, while benefiting another's.

Tom Oliver thought he'd a very heavy stake in this here affair, as he was to fight Shelton, on the 23d, for a hundred. […] (Give it them, Tom! hit them in the bread-basket!)

Everything was impeccably organized for the dinner. Platters and salad bowls, bread baskets, pumpkin pies. The oven gave off a mouthwatering smell as we sat on a couple of high stools beneath the hanging pans.

Canada at the turn of the century had become the breadbasket of the British Empire and industrialised Europe and wheat grown on the prairies was consolidated in elevator at Fort William, Ontario to await shipment overseas.

Word Forms

• breadbaskets
• bread basket
• bread-basket

Synonyms for breadbasket

Depending on context, synonyms include granary, dumpling-depot, victualling-office, stomach, tummy, tum.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tum, tummy, stomach, barn, granary, cellar.

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