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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.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æv

Etymology 1

Contraction of pavilion.

Noun

pav (plural pavs)

1. (cricket, informal) Clipping of pavilion.
   • 1954, Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings, page 80,

     “It?s no good hanging around here. I vote we nip round to the back of the pav,” Jennings suggested. “We might be able to see Mr Findlater and wave to him through the window.”

     They scurried round to the rear of the building where a row of windows overlooked a deserted part of the cricket ground.

   • 2000, Aidan Higgins, The Whole Hog, unnumbered page,

     Up goes the finger and the Dodo snaps to attention, rams the bat under his arm (subaltern with swagger stick) and retreats to the pav with a slowness intended as silent comment on a poor decision.

   • 2008, Fionn Davenport, Dublin City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 166,

     One of the most enjoyable drinking experiences in town can be had on a pleasant summer?s day on the balcony of the Pav, the cricket pavilion overlooking Trinity?s playing fields.

Etymology 2

Contraction of pavlova. Australian from 1966.

Noun

pav (plural pavs)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of pavlova.
   • 2003, Stephen Downes, Advanced Australian Fare: How Australian Cooking Became the World?s Best, page 6,

     Bert Sachse experimented for a month to create the perfect pav.

   • 2011, Neil Perry, Rockpool Bar & Grill: Desserts, unnumbered page,

     I?m totally biased but I think this is the best pav in the world. It also does nothing to clear up the argument that the pav is in fact from New Zealand and not Australia.

   • 2011, Margaret Fulton, Suzanne Gibbs, Margaret Fulton Favourites, page 194,

     Pavlova, named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, is still just about the most popular party dessert in Australia. […] The following recipe was given to me by a churchgoer who won acclaim for her ‘pavs’ and made at least five a week for members of the congregation.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pav (plural pavs)

1. (India) Bread.

See also

• pav bhaji

Anagrams

• APV, AVP, PVA, VAP, VPA, vap

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pá??/

Noun

p?v m anim (female equivalent p?vica or pavíca)

1. peacock (bird)

Inflection

Further reading

• “pav”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran