bread and butter

Questions about bread and butter

What is another word for bread and butter?

It depends which bread and butter you mean. In the sense “the financial means whereby one lives”, the synonyms are support, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bread and butter?

WordNet records no antonym for bread and butter. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bread and butter come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bread and butter

• Full entry for bread and butterAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bread and butterWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.