Definitions for breads

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breads bread

Spelling: [bred]

IPA: /brɛd/

Breads is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in breads (abders).

Definitions for breads

noun

1. a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
2. food or sustenance; livelihood:
3. Slang. money.
4. Ecclesiastical. the wafer or bread used in a Eucharistic service.

Idioms

1. break bread, to eat a meal, especially in companionable association with others. to distribute or participate in Communion.
2. cast one's bread upon the waters, to act generously or charitably with no thought of personal gain.
3. know which side one's bread is buttered on, to be aware of those things that are to one's own advantage.
4. take the bread out of someone's mouth, to deprive someone of livelihood.

verb (used with object)

1. Cookery. to cover with breadcrumbs or meal.

Origin of breads

before 950; 1950-55 for def 3; Middle English breed, Old English brēad fragment, morsel, bread; cognate with German Brot

Examples for breads

A bad day for Mark Francis would involve having to take public transport and having the crusts left on his bread.

Place one sheet of phyllo on the board, brush it with butter, and sprinkle it with ¾ teaspoon of bread crumbs.

You know you have but cast your bread upon the waters—so no more of that!

The Son of God forgive us, Nora, we're after forgetting his bit of bread.

And so to-night I am going to spend them, not prudently on bread, but prodigally on beer.

She tried to talk to Mr. Brailsford when he handed her the tea and bread and butter.

The last time Xido was at the orphanage in 2012, money was running out and there was only bread to eat for a few days.

But honesty don't get you bread or bacon, not in this world!

Venezuela faces shortages in everything from toilet paper to bread, but one of the most overlooked items is breast implants.

For example, Kuwait recently put a limit the allowable amount of sodium in bread to lower blood pressure.