Meaning

5 senses
  1. A block of bread after baking.

    Laib, Laib Brot, Brot

    буха́нкаbuxánka, бу́лкаbúlka, бато́нbatón

  2. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

  3. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.

  4. A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.

  5. (informal, slang)A catloaf.

More definitions
  • a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
  • a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating

Examples

72 sentences
  1. She bought a loaf of bread.

    Вона придбала буханця хліба.

    ruОна купила буханку хлеба.

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  2. I baked a loaf of bread.

    Я спік хлібину.

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  3. Tom sliced the loaf of bread.

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  4. Tom bought a loaf of bread.

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  5. Half a loaf is better than none.

    deEin halbes Brot ist besser als keins.

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Translations

7 languages
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Origin

* From Middle English laf, lof, loof, from Old English hlāf (“bread; loaf”), from Proto-We

* From Middle English laf, lof, loof, from Old English hlāf (“bread; loaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread; loaf”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian (“to stand out prominently, tower up”).

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