bread
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
Noun 4 meanings
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Any variety of bread.
“Some breads are harder and drier than others.”
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Verb 2 meanings
To coat with breadcrumbs.
To form in meshes; net.
Etymology
From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”), from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).
BREAD at a glance
BREAD has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (B 3 + R 1 + E 1 + A 1 + D 2) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,918 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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