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noun / verb

bread

BRED/bred/

A staple food baked from flour dough.

Slices of bread reveal the airy crumb inside the crusty loaf.

A golden crusty yeast bread loaf with slices showing airy crumb.
Etymology
breadOld Englishbit, morsel; bread

Old English bread meant both a morsel and bread. One account treats “piece of food” as the underlying image; another connects the word’s deeper ancestry with leavening.

In context

Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries144:29
Salt not only flavors and preserves bread, it works with gluten in the flour to give the dough strength and elasticity.
What It Was Like To Live On A Medieval Farm As A Peasant | Tudor Monastery | Chronicle

More examples

  • The musician needs more bread to pay the rent.
  • She earns her bread by repairing furniture.
  • The cook breads the fish before frying it.

Forms

bread · breads · breaded · breading

Similar words

loaf
A particular shaped quantity of bread.
roll
A smaller individual piece of bread.