bread
[noun]
Synonyms:
- food, fare, nourishment, sustenance
- money, cash, dough (slang)

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

bread S2 W3 /bred/ noun [uncountable]
[Language: Old English]

1. a type of food made from flour and water that is mixed together and then baked:
Would you like some bread with your soup?
a loaf of brown bread
a piece of bread and butter

2. your/sb’s bread and butter informal the work that provides you with most of the money that you need in order to live:
Writing is my bread and butter.

3. know which side your bread is buttered on informal to know which people to be nice to in order to get advantages for yourself

4. old-fashioned informal money

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

bread
noun
ADJ. fresh | hard, mouldy, soggy, stale This bread is going stale.
crusty some nice crusty white bread
sliced | unleavened | home-baked, home-made | fried | garlic | black, brown, granary, naan, pitta, rye, soda, white, wholemeal | French, Italian, etc.
QUANT. loaf | chunk, crumb, crust, hunk, morsel, piece, slice She tore off a large hunk of bread.
VERB + BREAD bake, make the smell of freshly-baked bread
cut, slice | butter, put sth on, spread bread thickly spread with plum jam
toast
BREAD + NOUN dough | pudding, roll, sauce | bin, knife
PREP. on the ~ What would you like on your bread?
PHRASES bread and butter/margarine a plate of bread and butter
bread and cheese/jam, bread and water He had to live on bread and water for two weeks.
bread and wine (= the food given to Christians during the Communion service) People started going up to receive the bread and wine.
 ⇒ Special page at FOOD

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

bread

fresh
Eat the bread while it’s nice and fresh.
stale (=hard and no longer fresh)
This bread’s stale – shall I throw it away?
crusty (=having a hard crust that is nice to eat)
Serve the soup with crusty bread.
mouldy British English, moldy American English (=covered with a green substance that grows on old food)
All there was in the house was a loaf of mouldy old bread.
white/brown bread
Would you like white bread or brown bread?
wholewheat bread (also wholemeal bread British English) (=bread made with flour that contains all of the grain)
Wholemeal bread is good for you.
home-made/home-baked bread
I love home-made bread.
a slice/piece of bread
Can I have another slice of bread?
a loaf of bread
He’s gone to buy a loaf of bread.
a chunk of bread (=a piece that you pull off a loaf instead of cutting it)
He tore off a chunk of bread and dipped it in the sauce.
make/bake bread
We usually make our own bread.
cut/slice bread
Could you cut some bread?

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

bread
noun
BAD: He's gone to buy a fresh bread.
GOOD: He's gone to buy some fresh bread.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Common Errors ▲

bread
bred
See: half a loaf is better than none , know which side one's bread is buttered on , take the bread out of one's mouth

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲