bread
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cerealsA foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
» I'd like some more bread, please.
Ich hätte gerne noch etwas Brot.
Könnte ich bitte noch etwas Brot bekommen?
Будьте добры, можно ещё хлеба?
Будь ласка, ще хліба.
Meaning
7 senses(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
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.
(countable, uncountable)Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Brot
хлебxleb
(countable)Any variety of bread.
Some breads are harder and drier than others.
Brot
хлебxleb
хлібxlib
(Cockney, US, countable, slang, uncountable)Money.
Kohle, Brot, Brod
ба́бкиbábki, бабло́babló, хлебxleb
хлібxlib
informal terms for money
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
(Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete)Breadth.
Examples
1750 sentencesI'd like some more bread, please.
Будь ласка, ще хліба. — ascolto
ruБудьте добры, можно ещё хлеба? — marafon
deIch hätte gerne noch etwas Brot. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
He spread butter on the bread.
Він намазав масло на хліб. — deniko
ruОн намазал масло на хлеб. — marafon
deEr schmierte Butter aufs Brot. — jakov
What's your favorite kind of bread?
Який у тебе улюблений хліб? — deniko
How much did the bread cost?
Скільки коштував хліб? — deniko
ruСколько стоил хлеб? — Selena777
deWie viel hat das Brot gekostet? — raggione
When did you buy this bread?
Коли ти купив цей хліб? — deniko
ruКогда ты купил этот хлеб? — marafon
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", aFrom 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: breadsSynonyms
70 synonyms- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked:breadstuffstaff of life
- informal terms for money:boodlecabbageclamsdinerodoughgeltkalelettuce
Word family
157 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A1Food and drink — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
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