'Bread' definitions:
Definition of 'bread'
From: WordNet
noun
Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked [syn: bread, breadstuff, staff of life]
noun
Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
verb
Cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before frying them"
Definition of 'Bread'
From: GCIDE
- Bread \Bread\ (br[e^]d), v. t. [AS. br[ae]dan to make broad, to spread. See Broad, a.] To spread. [Obs.] --Ray. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bread'
From: GCIDE
- Bread \Bread\ (br[e^]d), n. [AS. bre['a]d; akin to OFries. br[=a]d, OS. br[=o]d, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel. brau[eth], Sw. & Dan. br["o]d. The root is probably that of E. brew. [root]93. See Brew.]
- 1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking. [1913 Webster]
- Note:
- Raised bread is made with yeast, salt, and sometimes a little butter or lard, and is mixed with warm milk or water to form the dough, which, after kneading, is given time to rise before baking.
- Cream of tartar bread is raised by the action of an alkaline carbonate or bicarbonate (as saleratus or ammonium bicarbonate) and cream of tartar (acid tartrate of potassium) or some acid.
- Unleavened bread is usually mixed with water and salt only. [1913 Webster]
- {A["e]rated bread}. See under {A["e]rated}.
- Bread and butter (fig.), means of living.
- Brown bread, Indian bread, Graham bread, {Rye and Indian bread}. See Brown bread, under Brown.
- Bread tree. See Breadfruit. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. [1913 Webster]
- Give us this day our daily bread. --Matt. vi. 11 [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bread'
From: GCIDE
- Bread \Bread\, v. t. (Cookery) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bread'
From: Easton
- Bread among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Gen. 14:18; Judg. 7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any other preparation (Ruth 2:14).
- Bread was prepared by kneading in wooden bowls or "kneading troughs" (Gen. 18:6; Ex. 12:34; Jer. 7:18). The dough was mixed with leaven and made into thin cakes, round or oval, and then baked. The bread eaten at the Passover was always unleavened (Ex. 12:15-20; Deut. 16:3). In the towns there were public ovens, which were much made use of for baking bread; there were also bakers by trade (Hos. 7:4; Jer. 37:21). Their ovens were not unlike those of modern times. But sometimes the bread was baked by being placed on the ground that had been heated by a fire, and by covering it with the embers (1 Kings 19:6). This was probably the mode in which Sarah prepared bread on the occasion referred to in Gen. 18:6.
- In Lev. 2 there is an account of the different kinds of bread and cakes used by the Jews. (See BAKE.)
- The shew-bread (q.v.) consisted of twelve loaves of unleavened bread prepared and presented hot on the golden table every Sabbath. They were square or oblong, and represented the twelve tribes of Israel. The old loaves were removed every Sabbath, and were to be eaten only by the priests in the court of the sanctuary (Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:8; 1 Sam. 21:1-6; Matt. 12:4).
- The word bread is used figuratively in such expressions as "bread of sorrows" (Ps. 127:2), "bread of tears" (80:5), i.e., sorrow and tears are like one's daily bread, they form so great a part in life. The bread of "wickedness" (Prov. 4:17) and "of deceit" (20:17) denote in like manner that wickedness and deceit are a part of the daily life.
Synonyms of 'bread'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alimentation,
- alimony,
- altar bread,
- black bread,
- blunt,
- board,
- boodle,
- brass,
- bread and butter,
- bread and wine,
- bread stick,
- bread stuff,
- brown bread,
- bucks,
- cabbage,
- care,
- cash,
- cheer,
- chips,
- chow,
- coin,
- comestibles,
- Communion,
- consecrated bread,
- consecrated elements,
- consubstantiation,
- cracked-wheat bread,
- creature comfort,
- crust,
- cuisine,
- daily bread,
- dark bread,
- dinero,
- dough,
- eatables,
- eats,
- economic support,
- edibles,
- elements,
- endowment,
- Eucharist,
- fare,
- fast food,
- feast,
- feed,
- food,
- food and drink,
- foodstuff,
- French bread,
- garlic bread,
- gelt,
- gilt,
- graham bread,
- grease,
- green,
- green stuff,
- greenbacks,
- grub,
- health food,
- Holy Communion,
- Host,
- impanation,
- ingesta,
- intinction,
- Irish soda bread,
- Italian bread,
- jack,
- junk food,
- kale,
- keep,
- kitchen stuff,
- Last Supper,
- livelihood,
- living,
- loaf,
- loaf of bread,
- maintenance,
- manna,
- matzo,
- matzoth,
- mazuma,
- meat,
- moolah,
- mopus,
- mothering,
- nourishment,
- nurture,
- nut bread,
- oil of palms,
- ointment,
- oof,
- ooftish,
- pain,
- pita,
- price support,
- provender,
- provision,
- provisions,
- pumpernickel,
- raisin bread,
- real presence,
- rhino,
- rocks,
- rye bread,
- Sacrament Sunday,
- salt-rising bread,
- shekels,
- simoleons,
- sourbread,
- sourdough bread,
- spondulics,
- spread,
- staff of life,
- subpanation,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subsistence,
- subvention,
- sugar,
- support,
- sustainment,
- sustenance,
- sustentation,
- table,
- tack,
- tender loving care,
- the Holy Sacrament,
- the needful,
- the Sacrament,
- tin,
- TLC,
- toast,
- tommy,
- transubstantiation,
- tucker,
- unleavened bread,
- upkeep,
- viands,
- victuals,
- vittles,
- wafer,
- wampum,
- white bread,
- whole wheat bread
Words containing 'Bread'
- Breaded,
- Aerated bread,
- Bread and butter,
- Bread tree,
- Brown bread,
- Corn bread,
- Dole bread,
- Gluten bread,
- Graham bread,
- Haver bread,
- Hog's bread,
- Hottentot's bread,
- Household bread,
- Indian bread,
- Native bread,
- Pilot bread,
- Pita bread,
- Raised bread,
- Sad bread,
- Soda bread,
- Sow bread,
- Temse bread,
- Temsed bread,
- Unleavened bread,
- anadama bread,
- banana bread,
- batter bread,
- black bread,
- bread board,
- bread dough,
- bread knife,
- bread line,
- bread maker,
- bread mold,
- bread sauce,
- break bread,
- cinnamon bread,
- cuckoo bread,
- daily bread,
- dark bread,
- date bread,
- dika bread,
- french bread,
- fry bread,
- garlic bread,
- hottentot bread,
- italian bread,
- light bread,
- loaf of bread,
- monkey bread,
- nut bread,
- onion bread,
- pocket bread,
- quick bread,
- raisin bread,
- rye bread,
- seminole bread,
- ship bread,
- skillet bread,
- sour bread,
- sourdough bread,
- spoon bread,
- tea bread,
- wastel bread,
- white bread,
- Cream of tartar bread,
- Monkey-bread,
- Rye and Indian bread,
- Saint John's bread,
- St John's bread,
- boston brown bread,
- bread and butter pickle,
- bread-bin,
- bread-stick,
- caraway seed bread,
- feast of the unleavened bread,
- hottentot bread vine,
- hottentot's bread vine,
- irish soda bread,
- jewish rye bread,
- skillet corn bread,
- swedish rye bread,
- white-bread,
- whole meal bread,
- whole wheat bread,
- bread-and-butter issue,
- cracked-wheat bread,
- date-nut bread,
- monkey-bread tree,
- salt-rising bread,
- twice-baked bread,
- saint-john's-bread