breadbasket

1. 1.

   a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain

   Broaderregion
2. 2.

   an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion

   Synonymsstomachtummytum

   Broaderinternal organ

   Narrowercrawrumenreticulumpsalteriumabomasum

   Part ofalimentary canal

   Partsgastric arterygastric veingastroomental veinpit of the stomach
3. 3.

   a basket for serving bread

   Broaderbasket

Other forms of breadbasket

plural

breadbaskets·

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 breadbasket

What does breadbasket mean?

breadbasket means "a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breadbasket?

breadbasket has 3 syllables: bread-bas-ket. The stress falls on "bread". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɛdˌbæskət/.

What is another word for breadbasket?

Close synonyms include stomach, tummy, tum. 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 breadbasket a common word?

breadbasket 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.

What rhymes with breadbasket?

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