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noun
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, especially, uncountable
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noun
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: staff of life
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noun
Any variety of bread.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cockney, US, countable, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: ackers, bees and honey, blunt, bones, brass, bread, bread and honey, Bugs Bunny, cake, cheddar, cheese, ching, clams, coin, cream, tender, currency, dinero, dosh, dough, feds, fedi, finances, flizz, flow, funding, funds, gravy, gwop, gwolla, jack, legal tender, lolly, lovely jubbly, mazuma, means, money, moola, mozzarella, muck, oof, ooftish, paper, rhino, scratch, scrilla, shrapnel, simoleons, smackers, smackeroos, smackeroonies, spend, spondulicks, swag, wampum, wonga, yenom
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noun
Breadth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
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noun
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To coat with breadcrumbs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To form in meshes; net.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: starches, baked goods
Narrower terms: anadama bread, bap, barmbrack, breadstick, bread-stick, brown bread, Boston brown bread, bun, roll, caraway seed bread, challah, hallah, cinnamon bread, cracked-wheat bread, cracker, crouton, dark bread, whole wheat bread, whole meal bread, English muffin, flatbread, garlic bread, gluten bread, Host, loaf of bread, loaf, matzo, matzoh, matzah, unleavened bread, nan, naan, onion bread, raisin bread, quick bread, rye bread, salt-rising bread, simnel, sour bread, sourdough bread, toast, wafer, white bread, light bread
noun
informal terms for money
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: money
verb
cover with bread crumbs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cover
History
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 conflation of the two. Possibly a doublet of broa. Cognates Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Yola breed (“bread”), North Frisian bruad, Bruar, brüüdj (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brood (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Alemannic German brot, broud, bruat, bròt, bröt (“bread”), Cimbrian proat, pròat (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), German Low German Brod, Brood, Broot, Brot, Bräot (“bread”), Limburgish broed (“bread”), Luxembourgish Brout (“bread”), Mòcheno proat (“bread”), Vilamovian brūt (“bread; loaf”), Yiddish ברויט (broyt, “bread”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål brød (“bread”), Elfdalian broð (“bread”), Faroese breyð (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Norn brau, brow (“bread”), Norwegian Nynorsk braud, brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Crimean Gothic broe (“bread”); also Cornish brys (“thought; mind”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic beir (“bear, give birth to”), Welsh bryd (“aim, intent”), Latin fors (“chance, luck”), Greek φέρνω (férno), φέρω (féro, “to bear, carry”), Albanian brydh (“to ripen, soften; to crumble”), Latvian bērt (“to pour; to scatter, strew”), Lithuanian berti (“to scatter, strew”), Belarusian бру́ха (brúxa, “belly”), Czech břich, břicho, břuch (“belly”), Kashubian brzëch (“belly”), Polish brzuch, brzucho (“belly”), Russian брю́хо (brjúxo, “belly”), Slovak brucho (“belly”), Armenian բերել (berel, “to bring, fetch”), Persian بردن (bordan/burdan, “to bear, carry”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B pär- (“to bear; to wear”), Sanskrit भारयति (bhārayati, “to carry”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”). In this sense, mostly replaced loaf, which had been the more common term in Old English (see hlaf), a process which similarly occured in other languages such as German.
From Middle English brede (“breadth, width, extent”), from Old English brǣdu (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).
Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).
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