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English

Wikibooks

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) enPR: br?d, IPA^(key): /b??d/, /b?e?d/
• (UK, US) enPR: br?d, IPA^(key): /b??d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: bred

Etymology 1

From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English br?ad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-Germanic *braud? (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erw-, *b?rew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?era- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two.

Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”).

Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).

Noun

bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)

1. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
2. (countable) Any variety of bread.
3. (slang, US) Money.
4. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Usage notes

• loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread.

Synonyms

• (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: brede
• ? Fiji Hindi: bareed

Translations

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs

Derived terms

• breaded (adjective)
• breading (noun)

Translations

See also

• loaf

Etymology 2

From Middle English brede, from Old English br?du (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braid?? (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).

Noun

bread (plural breads)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.

Derived terms

• waybread

Etymology 3

From Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan (“to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *braidijan? (“to make broad, broaden”).

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.

References

Etymology 4

Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan, bre?dan (“to braid”).

Alternative forms

• breathe, brede

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.

Noun

bread (plural breads)

1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Anagrams

• Bader, Beard, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, beard, debar

Old English

Alternative forms

• br?od

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *braud?, whence also Old Frisian br?d (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon br?d (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German br?t (German Brot), Old Norse brauð and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bræ???d/

Noun

br?ad n (nominative plural br?adru) (rare, chiefly Anglian)

1. bit, piece, morsel, crumb
2. bread (foodstuff)

Declension

Synonyms

• (bread): hl?f

Derived terms

• b?obr?ad
• picgbr?ad

Descendants

• Middle English: bred, brede, breed, brid, bread, bræd
  • English: bread
    • Sranan Tongo: brede
    • ? Fiji Hindi: bareed
  • Scots: breid
  • Yola: breed

Spanish

Verb

bread

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of brear.

English

Etymology

basket +? ball

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??s.k?t.b??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæs.k?t.b??l/

Noun

basketball (countable and uncountable, plural basketballs)

1. (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

   Synonym: (US slang) hoops

2. (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)

1. To play basketball
   • 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward

     by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league

2. To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball
   • 1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies

     He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of basketball

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English basketball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?sk?tba?l/, [?b???s???d??b???l]

Noun

basketball c (singular definite basketballen, not used in plural form)

1. basketball

Synonyms

• (sport): basket
• (ball): basketbold

See also

• basketball on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Noun

basketball m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of basket-ball

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English basketball.

Noun

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)

1. basketball (ball game)

   Synonym: basket

References

• “basketball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “basketball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English basketball.

Noun

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)

1. basketball (ball game)

   Synonym: korgball

References

• “basketball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.