Meaning

7 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

    food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

  2. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

    (countable, especially, uncountable)Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.

    We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.

    My mother used to send me for the bread.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

    Brot

    хлебxleb

  4. (countable)Any variety of bread.

    Some breads are harder and drier than others.

    Brot

    хлебxleb

    хлібxlib

  5. (Cockney, US, countable, slang, uncountable)Money.

    Kohle, Brot, Brod

    ба́бкиbábki, бабло́babló, хлебxleb

    хлібxlib

    informal terms for money

  6. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

  7. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete)Breadth.

Examples

1750 sentences

  1. I'd like some more bread, please.

    Будь ласка, ще хліба.

    ruБудьте добры, можно ещё хлеба?

    deIch hätte gerne noch etwas Brot.

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  2. He spread butter on the bread.

    Він намазав масло на хліб.

    ruОн намазал масло на хлеб.

    deEr schmierte Butter aufs Brot.

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  3. What's your favorite kind of bread?

    Який у тебе улюблений хліб?

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  4. How much did the bread cost?

    Скільки коштував хліб?

    ruСколько стоил хлеб?

    deWie viel hat das Brot gekostet?

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  5. When did you buy this bread?

    Коли ти купив цей хліб?

    ruКогда ты купил этот хлеб?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
countable: any variety of bread:
Русский
By meaning 2
food, sustenance, support of life, in general:
slang: money:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
food, sustenance, support of life, in general:
slang: money:
baked dough made from cereals:

Origin

From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", a

From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”), from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two. Possibly a doublet of broa.

From Middle English brede (“breadth, width, extent”), from Old English brǣdu (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).

Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).

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Forms

plural: breads

Synonyms

70 synonyms
brassB1cakeA1cheeseA1coinA2creamA1tenderB2currencyB1flowB1gravyB1meansB2moneyA1paperA1scratchB1spendA1
Close in meaning

Word family

157 related words
DerivedbreadwinnerC2adobe breadarval-breadash breadbake breadbark breadbeebreadblaanda breadbread-and-butterbread-and-butter issuebread-and-butter letterbread-and-butter notebread-and-butter picklebread-and-butter platebread-and-cheesebread-artistbread bagbreadbagbread-bag clipbread-bargebreadbasketbread-bearerbread beetlebreadberry

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • loaves of bread
  • buy some bread
  • slice of bread
  • loaf of bread
  • some bread
  • buy bread
  • baked bread
  • to buy bread
  • kind of bread
  • piece of bread
  • of loaves bread
  • bread and milk

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
brazenbrazenlybreachbreadbasketbreadcrumbbreadfruit
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