bread
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bread/bred/
▶noun
- 1 food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked.
- 2 informal money.
– phrases
bread and butter a person's livelihood or main source of income.
bread and circuses entertainment or political policies intended to keep the masses happy and docile.
break bread celebrate the Eucharist.
cast one's bread upon the waters do good without expecting gratitude or reward. [with biblical allusion to Eccles. 11:1.]
know which side one's bread is buttered informal know where one's advantage lies.
bread and butter a person's livelihood or main source of income.
bread and circuses entertainment or political policies intended to keep the masses happy and docile.
break bread celebrate the Eucharist.
cast one's bread upon the waters do good without expecting gratitude or reward. [with biblical allusion to Eccles. 11:1.]
know which side one's bread is buttered informal know where one's advantage lies.
– origin OE brēad, of Gmc origin.
'bread' also found in these Oxford entries:
altar
- ambrosia
- appanage
- bagel
- bakehouse
- baker
- bakery
- bap
- bara brith
- barmbrack
- barm cake
- bee bread
- bhelpuri
- bialy
- black bread
- boxty
- bread-and-butter letter
- breadcrumb
- bread sauce
- bread tree
- bridge roll
- brioche
- Brownie
- bruschetta
- bun
- cake
- canapé
- challah
- chapatti
- charlotte
- cheeseburger
- ciabatta
- club sandwich
- cob
- cockle
- communion
- companion
- concomitance
- consecrate
- consubstantiation
- continental breakfast
- cornbread
- corn pone
- crostini
- croustade
- crouton
- crumb
- crust
- doner kebab
