noun
Meaning 1
A basket used for storing or carrying bread.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
breadbasket
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɛdbɑːskɪt/
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General-American: /ˈbɹɛdˌbæskɪt/
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CMU ARPABET: B R EH1 D B AE2 S K AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: granary
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dumpling-depot, victualling-office
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a basket for serving bread
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: basket, handbasket
noun
Meaning 5
an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stomach, tummy, tum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: internal organ, viscus
Narrower terms: craw, crop, rumen, first stomach, reticulum, second stomach, psalterium, omasum, third stomach, abomasum, fourth stomach
noun
Meaning 6
a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: region
History
Etymology
From bread + basket.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: panera — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Chinese Mandarin: 麵包籃 /面包篮 (miànbāolán) — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Danish: brødkurv — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Dutch: broodmand — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Finnish: leipäkori — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Galician: cesta do pan — basket for storing or carrying bread
- German: Brotkorb — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Ancient Greek: κάνεον (káneon) — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Hungarian: kenyérkosár — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Irish: ciseán aráin — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Latin: pānārium — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Māori: pārō — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Polish: koszyk na chleb — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Portuguese: cesta de pão — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Portuguese: cesta de pães — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Russian: хле́бница (xlébnica) — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Spanish: panera — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Spanish: panero — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Swedish: brödkorg — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Swedish: brödfat — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Swedish: brödlåda — basket for storing or carrying bread
- Turkish: ekmek sepeti — basket for storing or carrying bread