bread
The definition of bread means a baked combination of flour and liquid that has often been shaped into loaves.
(noun)The top and bottom parts of a sandwich are examples of bread.
Bread is a slang word for money.
(noun)The money earned from a high paying job is an example of bread.
See bread in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a food baked from a leavened, kneaded dough made with flour or meal, water, yeast, etc.
- a similar food, as matzo, that is not leavened and so remains flat when baked
- any baked food like bread but made with a batter: quick breads, corn bread
- food generally
- the means of living; livelihood: to earn one's bread
- Slang money
Origin: ME bred < OE bread, crumb, morsel < IE *bhreu-, var. of *bhereu-, to ferment < base *bher-, well up, seethe > brew, burn, L fervere, to boil
transitive verb
See bread in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
- a. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life: “If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second” (Edward Bellamy).b. Something that nourishes; sustenance: “My bread shall be the anguish of my mind” (Edmund Spenser).
- a. Means of support; livelihood: earn one's bread.b. Slang Money.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old English brēad; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots
Origin: . N., sense 3b, possibly from Cockney rhyming slang bread and honey
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