Definition of bread

"bread" in the noun sense

1. bread, breadstuff, staff of life

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

2. boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

informal terms for money

"bread" in the verb sense

1. bread

cover with bread crumbs

"bread the pork chops before frying them"

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Quotations for bread

Bread at pleasure,
Drink by measure. [ Proverb ]

At our wittes end. [ Heywood. Bread is the staff of life. [Swift ]

Eaten bread is forgotten. [ Proverb ]

Another's bread costs dear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Bread is the staff of life. [ Swift ]

Faith needs her daily bread. [ Georgiana M. Craik ]

Hope is the poor man's bread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A crust of bread and liberty. [ Pope ]

All griefs with bread are less. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They that have no other meat
Bread and butter are glad to eat. [ Proverb ]

Every day brings its bread with it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Better halfe a loafe than no bread. [ Camden ]

'Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead,
To know them still alive,
But sweeter if we earn their bread,
And in us they survive. [ Thomson ]

O God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap! [ Hood ]

To the grave with the dead,
And let them that live to the bread. [ Proverb ]

Half a loaf is better than no bread. [ Proverb ]

Let him that earns the bread eat it. [ Proverb ]

Your bread is buttered on both sides. [ Proverb ]

The bread eaten, the company dispersed. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Under water, famine; under snow, bread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Generous as brave.
Affection, kindness, and the sweet office
Of love and duty, were to him as needful
As his daily bread. [ Rogers ]

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. [ Swift ]

On some men's bread butter will not stick. [ Proverb ]

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows;
'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. [ Pope ]

Threatened men eat bread, says the Spaniard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. [ Cervantes ]

Where is the dust that has not been alive?
The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors;
From human mould we reap our daily bread. [ Young ]

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. [ Young ]

He knows which side of his bread is buttered. [ Proverb ]

Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found. [ Salis ]

The crackling embers on the hearth are dead;
The indoor note of industry is still;
The latch is fast; upon the window-sill
The small birds wait not for their daily bread;
The voiceless flowers - how quietly they shed
Their nightly odours; - and the household rill
Murmurs continuous dulcet sounds that fill
The vacant expectation, and the dread
Of listening night. [ Hartley Coleridge ]

A man of many trades begs his bread on Sundays. [ Proverb ]

Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Who likes not the drink, God deprives him of bread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When there is but little bread cut first if you can. [ Proverb ]

You shew bread in one hand and a stone in the other. [ Proverb ]

Who hath no more bread than need must not keep a dog. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is time to set in when the oven comes to the bread. [ Proverb ]

Dogs wag their tails, not so much in love to you as your bread. [ Proverb ]

He carries a store in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [ Plautus ]

If you hate a man eat his bread; and if you love him do the same. [ Proverb ]

Justice is the bread of nations: they are always famishing for it. [ Chateaubriand ]

He who fasts and does no good, saves his bread but loses his soul. [ Proverb ]

Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Covetousness, as well as prodigality, brings a man to a morsel of bread. [ Proverb ]

He who has teeth is without bread, and he who has bread is without teeth. [ Italian Proverb ]

Bread with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps up to the eyes. [ Proverb ]

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. [ Beecher ]

I had rather ask of my fire brown bread than borrow of my neighbour white. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The best smell is bread, the best savor salt, the best love that of children. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. [ Haliburton ]

Would you eat finer bread than is made of wheat, or wear finer cloth than is made of wool? [ Proverb ]

Prayer is the dew of the soul ravaged by adversity, and oftentimes the only bread of the poor. [ A. Poincelot ]

It is better to live by begging one's bread than to gratify the mouth at the expense of others. [ Hitopadesa ]

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. [ H. Home ]

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all. [ Cervantes ]

Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself. [ Cervantes ]

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature. [ Quintilian ]

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [ Dante ]

Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread, and never bring disgust; and great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then satiety. [ Richter ]

When I cast my bread to the birds on the shores, the waves seemed to say: Hope! for, when thou comest to want, God will return thy bread! God still owes it to me. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

Oh! why is daily bread indispensable to the poet and to the artist! This inexorable necessity darkens for them the joys of nature and the radiations of the beautiful. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion. [ Henry Home ]

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [ Bible ]

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue, - I mean good-nature, - are of daily use: they are the bread of mankind and staff of life. [ Dryden ]

He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who is in want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. [ Colton ]

The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. [ Bryant ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

bread in Scrabble®

The word bread is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters bread:

BARED
(33)
BREAD
(33)
BEARD
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word bread

BREAD
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In bread

BARED
(33)
BREAD
(33)
BEARD
(33)
BEARD
(30)
DRAB
(30)
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(30)
BARD
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(30)
BARED
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DEBAR
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READ
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bread in Words With Friends™

The word bread is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters bread:

BREAD
(51)
BARED
(51)
BEARD
(51)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word bread

BREAD
(51)
BREAD
(39)
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(36)
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(34)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In bread

BREAD
(51)
BARED
(51)
BEARD
(51)
DRAB
(48)
BADE
(48)
BRAD
(48)
BARD
(48)
BRED
(48)
BEAD
(48)
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(45)
BARE
(45)
DEBAR
(39)
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(39)
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(39)
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(39)
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(36)
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DEBAR
(36)
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(36)
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(36)
BRAD
(36)
BEAD
(36)
BARED
(36)
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(36)
BEARD
(34)
BARED
(34)
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DEBAR
(33)
BARED
(33)
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BREAD
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BEARD
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DEBAR
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Word Growth involving bread

Shorter words in bread

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Longer words containing bread

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