bread

n.

1. Grain product

   loaf, baked goods, the staff of life.

   Types of bread include: whole wheat, grain, oatmeal, graham, rye, leavened, unleavened, matzo, salt-rising, yeast, quick, flat, pita, baguette, corn, sourdough, Russian, raisin, pumpernickel, Vienna, French, Italian, white, black, dark brown, Boston brown, steamed, Swedish, potato, hardtack.

2. Breadlike foods include: Zwieback, spoon bread, cake, dumpling, turnover, rusk, gem, bun, cookie, English muffin, corn bread, bagel, biscuit, doughnut, muffin, popover, scone, shortbread, hoecake, pone, johnnycake, pancake, waffle, tortilla, Indian bread;

3. Food

   meal, sustenance, livelihood, bed and board; see food, subsistence 1.

4. *Money

   cash, dollars, dough*; see money 1.

break bread

cast one's bread upon the waters

know which side one's bread is buttered on*