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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

Etymology

From circa 1305, Middle English poding (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddyng, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”). Doublet of boudin.

• An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout.

Pronunciation

• enPR: po?od?ing, IPA^(key): /?p?d.??/
• Rhymes: -?d??

Noun

pudding (countable and uncountable, plural puddings)

1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
   • 2004, Victoria Wise, The Pressure Cooker Gourmet, page 313,

     The dishes in this chapter represent a range of multiethnic savory custards and steamed puddings, including a few surprises like a chèvre popover pudding and a bread pudding with lettuce and cheese.

   • 2004, Sarah Garland, The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, page 199,

     Steamed and boiled puddings have formed the basic diet of country people in northern Europe for centuries. Early puddings consisted of the scoured stomach of a sheep or pig, stuffed with its own suet and offal, which has been thickened with oatmeal, and boiled in water or baked in the ashes of a fire.

2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
   • 2007, Magdaleen Van Wyk, The Complete South African Cookbook, page 265,

     Steamed puddings, a favourite for winter, are both easy to make and delicious. Served with one of the sweet sauces (recipes 497 to 506) they make a filling and satisfying end to a meal.

3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
4. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

5. (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.
6. (slang) An overweight person.
7. (slang) Entrails.
8. (obsolete) Any food or victuals.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Merry Andrew

     Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.

9. (archaic, slang) A piece of good fortune.

Synonyms

• (sausage made from blood): black pudding (UK), blood sausage
• (dessert): afters (UK informal), dessert, pud (UK slang), sweet (British)
• (custard-like dessert): custard, crème caramel, crème brûlée, flan, mousse

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.d??/
• Hyphenation: pud?ding

Noun

pudding m (plural puddingen, diminutive puddinkje n)

1. A pudding, dessert of the custard-type

Derived terms

• chocoladepudding
• drilpudding
• griesmeelpudding
• vanillepudding

French

Alternative forms

• pouding (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding. Doublet of boudin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.di?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

1. any dish formed from putting the leftovers of a place such as a bakery together, and mixing them all into one

Descendants

• ? Romanian: budinc?
• ? Turkish: puding

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

From English pudding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu.dink/

Noun

pudding m inan

1. pudding (boiled or steamed cake or dessert)

Declension

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding, from Old French boudin, of uncertain origin. Doublet of budín, pudín, and pudin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pudin/, [?pu.ð??n]
• Homophone: pudin

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

1. pudding (particularly British types)

Swedish

Etymology

From English pudding.

Noun

pudding c

1. A cake or dessert prepared by boiling or steaming.
2. Any of various savoury dishes prepared in a similar way to a sweet pudding.
3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
4. (slang) An attractive person; a hottie.

Declension