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Bread
/bɹeːd/
Today’s word is River.
What it means
- noun
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- noun
Any variety of bread.
- noun
Money.
Where it comes from
Bread is Old English bread. In the earliest English it often meant a piece or a morsel, while the everyday word for a loaf was hlaf. That older word still sits inside loaf, and inside lord, once the keeper of the loaf. Bread later became the name of the food itself.
In a sentence
- Slice the bread.by CK, Tatoeba
- I ordered bread.by Miktsoanit, Tatoeba
- I ate only bread.by CK, Tatoeba
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