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bread

noun · verb US /bred/

food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,302 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 14,071 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.

What it means

noun

  1. food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked also: breadstuff, staff of life
  2. informal terms for money also: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt

verb

  1. cover with bread crumbs bread the pork chops before frying them

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

bread in real books

Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.

  • Clothes were wearing out, bread was harder and harder to get.

    The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories · Mark Twain · Chapter 1

  • Bread of Flour makes a large portion of my Food, perhaps near 1-2.

    The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6 · Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks · Chapter 1

  • She is to-day without shelter and without bread; and you are her supreme hope.’

    Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1

  • Then she gave them each a bowl of bread and milk for their breakfast.

    The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1

  • While speaking, she was going to her bread and honey, when she perceived some one had got the start of her.

    Piccolissima · Adélaïde de Montgolfier · Chapter 1

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