Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, bread making bowl into loaves, and baked. To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking: breaded the fish fillets.

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In Old English, it meant “piece, morsel,” while actual bread was known as “loaf. See also related terms for loaf. To coat food with breadcrumbs, biscuit crumbs or cereal crumbs. I go to work, I put bread on the table, I pay the mortgage. That which sustains the mind or spirit:aliment, food, nourishment, nutriment, pabulum, pap, sustenance. The means needed to support life:alimentation, alimony, bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, subsistence, support, sustenance, upkeep. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange:cash, currency, lucre, money.