Dictionary entries for 'bread'

Synonyms

bread (brĕd)

[Middle English, from Old English brēad, N., sense 3b, possibly from Cockney rhyming slang bread and honey.]

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.
1. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life: “If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second” (Edward Bellamy)
2. Something that nourishes; sustenance: “My bread shall be the anguish of my mind” (Edmund Spenser)
1. Means of support; livelihood: earn one's bread.
2. Slang Money.