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As a noun, bread means a foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. As a verb, it means coat with breadcrumbs.
Meanings of bread
12 meaningsnoun
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
“We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.”
“Any leftover bread can be put into the pudding.”
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Any variety of bread.
slangUSCockneyMoney.
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then bakedfood
Similar: breadstuff, staff of life
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteuk dialectalScotlandBreadth.
verb
To coat with breadcrumbs.
“breaded fish”
dialectalTo make broad; spread.
To form in meshes; net.
Cover with bread crumbs
“bread the pork chops before frying them”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).