• (Australia) enPR: brĕd, IPA: /bɹɛd/, /bɹeːd/
• (British, America) enPR: brĕd, IPA: /bɹɛd/

bread

1. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
   • 1981, Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”, A Light in the Attic, Harper & Row:

     How many slices in a^[sic] bread? / Depends how thin you cut it.

2. (countable) Any variety of bread.
3. (slang, US) Money.
4. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Matthew 4:11 ↗:

     Give us this day our daily bread.

• (slang: money) dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga

• French: pain
• German: Brot
• Italian: pane
• Portuguese: pão
• Russian: хлеб
• Spanish: pan

• French: pain
• German: Brot
• Portuguese: pão
• Russian: хлеб
• Spanish: pan

• French: fric, blé
• German: Kohle
• Portuguese: massa, guito, grana
• Russian: ба́бки
• Spanish: pasta (Spain), lana (Mexico), plata (Argentina)

• French: pain
• German: Brot
• Russian: хлеб

bread (breads, present participle breading; past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs

• French: paner
• German: panieren
• Italian: impanare, panare
• Portuguese: panar
• Russian: панирова́ть
• Spanish: empanar, empanizar

bread (plural breads)

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.

bread (breads, present participle breading; past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.

bread (breads, present participle breading; past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.

bread (plural breads)

1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.