Antonyms for bread

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bred

Phonetic Transcription : brɛd

Definition of bread

Origin : Old English bread "bit, crumb, morsel; bread," cognate with Old Norse brauð, Danish brød, Old Frisian brad, Middle Dutch brot, Dutch brood, German Brot. According to one theory [Watkins, etc.] from Proto-Germanic *brautham, which would be from the root of brew (v.) and refer to the leavening.
But OED argues at some length for the basic sense being not "cooked food" but "piece of food," and the Old English word deriving from a Proto-Germanic *braudsmon- "fragments, bits" (cf. Old High German brosma "crumb," Old English breotan "to break in pieces") and being related to the root of break (v.). It cites Slovenian kruh "bread," literally "a piece."
Either way, by c.1200 it had replaced the usual Old English word for "bread," which was hlaf (see loaf (n.)). Slang meaning "money" dates from 1940s, but cf. breadwinner. Bread-and-butter in the figurative sense of "basic needs" is from 1732. Bread and circuses (1914) is from Latin, in reference to food and entertainment provided by governments to keep the populace happy. "Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses" [Juvenal, Sat. x.80].

noun daily food
noun money

Example sentences :

But honesty don't get you bread or bacon, not in this world!
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

She tried to talk to Mr. Brailsford when he handed her the tea and bread and butter.
Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

And so to-night I am going to spend them, not prudently on bread, but prodigally on beer.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

You know you have but cast your bread upon the waters—so no more of that!
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

The Son of God forgive us, Nora, we're after forgetting his bit of bread.
Extract from : « Riders to the Sea » by J. M. Synge

If it had been a loaf of bread he thought it would be more consistent.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

It is as though I had asked for a crumb of bread, and he gave me the entire loaf.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

There may be a second layer of bread on top of the meat if desired.
Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

The lightness of the bread can easily be scored when the bread is cut.
Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Fig. 14 illustrates a loaf of bread that has risen too much.
Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Synonyms for bread

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