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bread

  [bred]
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–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: to earn one's bread.
3. Slang. money.
4. Ecclesiastical. the wafer or bread used in a Eucharistic service.
–verb (used with object)
5. Cookery. to cover with breadcrumbs or meal.
—Idioms
6. break bread,
a. to eat a meal, esp. in companionable association with others.
b. to distribute or participate in Communion.
7. cast one's bread upon the waters, to act generously or charitably with no thought of personal gain.
8. know which side one's bread is buttered on, to be aware of those things that are to one's own advantage.
9. take the bread out of someone's mouth, to deprive someone of livelihood.
Origin:
bef. 950; 1950–55 for def. 3; ME breed, OE brēad fragment, morsel, bread; c. G Brot

Related forms:
breadless, adjective
bread⋅less⋅ness, noun
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Slang Dictionary
bread

  1. n.
    money. : I need to get some bread to live on.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bread 
O.E. bread "crumb, morsel," originally simply "piece of food" (cf. Slovenian kruh "bread," lit. "a piece"), from P.Gmc. *brautham (cf. O.N. brot, Dan. brød, Ger. Brot), which would be from the root of brew (q.v.). But other authorities deny this and suggest the basic sense was not "cooked food" but "piece," and the O.E. word derives from a P.Gmc. *braudsmon- "fragments, bits" (cf. O.H.G. brosma "crumb") and is related to the root of break. Replaced by 1200 the O.E. word for bread, which was hlaf, see loaf. The verb "to dress with bread crumbs" is from 1727. Slang meaning "money" dates from 1940s, but bread-winner is from 1818. Bread-and-butter in the fig. sense of "basic needs" is from 1732. Bread and circuses (1914) is from L., in ref. to food and entertainment provided by governments to keep the populace happy. "Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses" [Juvenal, Sat. x.80].
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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