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Synonyms for bread

noun

  1. Grain product

    loaf, baked goods, the staff of life.

    Types of bread include: whole wheat, grain, oatmeal, graham, rye, leavened, unleavened, matzo, salt-rising, yeast, quick, flat, pita, baguette, corn, sourdough, Russian, raisin, pumpernickel, Vienna, French, Italian, white, black, dark brown, Boston brown, steamed, Swedish, potato, hardtack.

  2. Breadlike foods include: Zwieback, spoon bread, cake, dumpling, turnover, rusk, gem, bun, cookie, English muffin, corn bread, bagel, biscuit, doughnut, muffin, popover, scone, shortbread, hoecake, pone, johnnycake, pancake, waffle, tortilla, Indian bread;

  3. Food

    meal, sustenance, livelihood, bed and board; see food, subsistence 1.

  4. *Money

    cash, dollars, dough*; see money 1.

break bread

partake of food, eat, have a meal; see eat 1.

cast one's bread upon the waters

grant, endow, be generous; see give 1, help 1.

know which side one's bread is buttered on*

be prudent, be shrewd, look out for number one*; see prosper.

See bread in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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