bread line

1. 1.

   a queue of people waiting for free food

   Synonymsbreadline

   Broaderqueue

Questions about bread line

What does bread line mean?

bread line means "a queue of people waiting for free food".

What is another word for bread line?

Close synonyms include breadline. 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 line a common word?

bread line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.