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breadstuff

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /bɹɛdˌstʌf/

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

flour or meal or grain used in baking bread

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: foodstuff, food product

4

noun

Meaning 4

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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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bread, 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

History

Etymology

From bread + stuff.