Meaning

3 senses
  1. A basket used for storing or carrying bread.

    Brotkorb

    хле́бницаxlébnica

    a basket for serving bread

  2. A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.

  3. (humorous)The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Kuban is the breadbasket of Russia.

    ruКубань - житница России. — marafon

  2. Algeria needs to create a breadbasket in its high plateaus.

  3. Algeria should become one of the breadbaskets of the world.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
basket for storing or carrying bread:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
basket for storing or carrying bread:

Origin

From bread + basket.

From bread + basket.

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Forms

plural: breadbaskets

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion:stomachtummytum

See also

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