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English

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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.

Abinomn

Noun

bon

1. (anatomy) shoulder

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bon (feminine bone, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bones, comparative moillous, superlative moillous)

1. good

Antonyms

• mau
• mauvois

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan bon, from Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?b?n/

Adjective

bon

1. good; alternative form of bo

Usage notes

The form bon is used as the masculine singular form when the adjective precedes the noun, and bo is used in all other cases.

Related terms

• bé, ben
• bondat

Cimbrian

Etymology 1

From Middle High German von, from Old High German fon (“from”). Cognate with German von.

Preposition

bon

1. (Sette Comuni, + dative) from, of

Alternative forms

• vo (Luserna)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Contraction

bon

1. bon + in, from the, of the

References

• “bon” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Danish

Etymology 1

From French bon (“voucher, ticket”), from the adjective bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”). Compare also German Bon (“receipt, voucher”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b???]

Noun

bon c (singular definite bonen, plural indefinite boner)

1. receipt

Declension

Further reading

• “bon” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “bon” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?b?o?n]

Verb

bon

1. imperative of bone

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?b????]

Verb

bon

1. imperative of bone

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?n/
• Hyphenation: bon
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

bon m (plural bonnen or bons, diminutive bonnetje n)

1. receipt
2. (Netherlands) ticket, fine (e.g. for speeding)
3. voucher

Derived terms

• op de bon

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: bon

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/

Adjective

bon m (feminine singular bonna, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bonnes, comparative meillor, superlative lo meillor)

1. good

   Comment el est bon de vos veir !

2. right, correct

   Totes voutres réponses sont bonnes !

3. (slang, slightly vulgar, of a woman) sexy

   Cela fenna est vrai bonna !

Antonyms

• mauvais, mal

Related terms

• ben
• bontá

French

Etymology

From Middle French bon, from Old French bon, from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/, (before a vowel) /b?n?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: bond, bonds, bons

Adjective

bon (feminine singular bonne, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bonnes, comparative meilleur, superlative le meilleur)

1. good
2. right, correct
3. (slang, slightly derogatory, of a woman) sexy, hot, smoking hot

Usage notes

Only three French adjectives have an irregular comparative: bon, mauvais (pire) and petit (moindre).

Antonyms

• mauvais, mal

Derived terms

Related terms

• bien
• bonté

Noun

bon m (plural bons)

1. voucher, ticket, coupon

   Synonyms: coupon, billet

Derived terms

• bon de livraison
• échange de bons procédés

Descendants

• ? German: Bon

Interjection

bon

1. well; OK

Derived terms

• ah bon

Further reading

• “bon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin bonus (“good”).

Noun

bon

1. good

Adjective

bon m (feminine buine)

1. good

Antonyms

• trist, cjatîf, brut, frait

Related terms

• ben
• bontât

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese bom. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bon.

Adjective

bon

1. good

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bon (“good”).

Adjective

bon

1. good

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bo?n]
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

bon (plural bonok)

1. voucher

Usage notes

It is usually pronounced with a long o but the correct spelling is bon and not bón.

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?n/
• Hyphenation: bon

Etymology 1

From Dutch bon (“receipt”), from French bon. Cognate of Danish bon (“receipt”).

Noun

bon (first-person possessive bonku, second-person possessive bonmu, third-person possessive bonnya)

1. receipt.

   Synonyms: faktur, invois, kuitansi, resi

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch bond (“bond”), from Middle Dutch bund, from Proto-Germanic *bandaz, *bandiz (“band, fetter”). Cognate of English bond.

Noun

bon (first-person possessive bonku, second-person possessive bonmu, third-person possessive bonnya)

1. union, association, guild.

   Synonym: perserikatan

Further reading

• “bon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Adjective

bon (comparative melior, superlative le melior or le optime)

1. good

Japanese

Romanization

bon

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese bom.

Adjective

bon

1. good

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bon m (feminine singular bona, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bones)

1. able
2. good
3. probable

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ban, bone, bane, boon

Etymology

From Old English b?n, in turn from Proto-Germanic *bain?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??n/
• (Northern ME, Early ME) IPA^(key): /ba?n/

Noun

bon (plural bones)

1. bone

Derived terms

• bakbon
• schulder bone
• bonwort

Descendants

• English: bone
• Geordie English: byen
• Scots: bane, bean, bain
• Yola: bane

References

• “b?n, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• bõ (some manuscripts)

Etymology

From Old French bon.

Adjective

bon m (feminine singular bonne, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bonnes) (comparative meilleur, superlative meilleur)

1. good (virtuous, having positive qualities)

Descendants

• French: bon

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?n/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *b?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to shine”).

Noun

b?n f (nominative plural b?na)

1. ornament

Related terms

• b?nian
• ?eb?ned

Etymology 2

Shortening of b?gan.

Verb

b?n

1. Alternative form of b?gan

Old French

Alternative forms

• boen, boun, buen, bun

Etymology

From Latin bonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bun/
• Rhymes: -un

Adjective

bon m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bone, comparative meillor, superlative meillor)

1. good (not evil)
2. good (not of poor quality)

Declension

Related terms

• bien
• bonté / bunté

Descendants

• Middle French: bon
  • French: bon
• Picard: boin
• Walloon: bon
• ? Middle English: boon, bone
  • English: boon
  • Scots: boon

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• bo

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bon m (feminine singular bona, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bonas)

1. good (not evil)
2. good (not of poor quality)

Descendants

• Catalan: bo, bon
• Occitan: bon

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese bom and Kabuverdianu bon.

Adjective

bon

1. good

Polish

Etymology

From French bon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?n/

Noun

bon m inan

1. voucher, coupon

   Synonym: talon

Declension

Further reading

• bon in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• bon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French bon.

Noun

bon n (plural bonuri)

1. voucher, ticket, coupon

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From German Bon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bó?n/

Noun

b??n m inan

1. voucher

Inflection

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boom.

Noun

bon

1. tree

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?n/

Noun

bon

1. definite singular of bo
2. indefinite plural of bo

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English bone.

Noun

bon

1. bone

Venetian

Alternative forms

• bòn, bón

Etymology

From Latin bonus. Compare Italian buono.

Adjective

bon m (feminine singular bona, masculine plural boni, feminine plural bone) (Alternative masculine plural: buni)

1. good

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [???n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??????]

Verb

bon • (????)

1. to roll (on wheels)

Volapük

Noun

bon (nominative plural bons)

1. bean

Declension

Derived terms

• bonik

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French bon, from Latin bonus (“good”).

Adjective

bon

1. good

Antonyms

• måva, mwais