bread

1. 1.

   cover with bread crumbs

   “bread the pork chops before frying them”

   Broadercover

   cooking

Other forms of bread

plural

breads·

past tense

breaded·

present participle

breading·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bread

What does bread mean?

bread means "food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bread?

bread has 1 syllable: bread. In IPA it is /ˈbɹɛd/.

What is another word for bread?

Close synonyms include breadstuff, staff of life, boodle, cabbage, clams. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bread a common word?

bread is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bread?

6 words rhyme with bread. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.