break bread

1. 1.

   have a meal, usually with company

   “The early Christian disciples broke bread together”

   Broadereat

Questions about break bread

What does break bread mean?

break bread means "have a meal, usually with company".

Is break bread a common word?

break bread 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.