- a type of food made from flour, water and usually yeast mixed together and baked
- a loaf/slice/piece of bread
- white/brown/wholemeal bread
- the smell of freshly baked bread
- a plate of bread and butter
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda1- He had to live on bread and water for two weeks.
- She tore off a large hunk of bread.
- This bread is going stale.
- What would you like on your bread?
- oysters accompanied by slices of fresh rye bread
- bread thickly spread with peanut butter
- some nice crusty white bread
- People started going up to receive the bread and wine (= in a church service).
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fresh
- hard
- mouldy/moldy
- …
- loaf
- package
- chunk
- …
- bake
- make
- cut
- …
- dough
- pudding
- roll
- …
- on bread
- bread and butter
- bread and margarine
- bread and cheese
- …
- (old-fashioned, slang) money
Word OriginOld English brēad, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch brood and German Brot.
Idioms
See bread in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee bread in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishthe best thing since sliced bread
- (informal) if you say that something is the best thing since sliced bread, you think it is extremely good, interesting, etc.
your daily bread
- the basic things that you need to live, especially food
half a loaf (is better than no bread)
- (saying) you should be grateful for something, even if it is not as good, much, etc. as you really wanted; something is better than nothing
- The offer only amounted to half a loaf, but campaigners grabbed it anyway.
know which side your bread is buttered
- (informal) to know where you can get an advantage for yourself
take the bread out of somebody’s mouth
- to take away somebody’s job so that they are no longer able to earn enough money to live
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