- bread
- nounADJECTIVE▪ fresh▪ hard, mouldy/moldy, soggy, stale▪
This bread is going stale.
▪ crusty▪loaves of crusty French bread
▪ sliced▪ unleavened▪ organic▪ home-baked, home-made▪ fried (esp. BrE), toasted▪ banana, garlic▪ black, brown, corn, granary, naan (esp. BrE), pitta/pita, pumpernickel (esp. AmE), rye, soda, sourdough, wheat, white, wholegrain, wholemeal (BrE), wholewheat▪ seven-grain, etc.… OF BREAD▪ loaf▪ package (AmE)▪ chunk, crumb, crust, hunk, morsel, piece, slice▪She tore off a large hunk of bread.
VERB + BREAD▪ bake, make▪the smell of freshly baked bread
▪ cut, slice▪ butter, put sth on, spread▪bread thickly spread with peanut butter
▪ toastBREAD + NOUN▪ dough▪ pudding (esp. BrE), roll, sauce (esp. BrE)▪ basket, bin (BrE), box (AmE), knifePREPOSITION▪ on bread▪What would you like on your bread?
PHRASES▪ bread and butter, bread and margarine▪a plate of bread and butter
▪ bread and cheese, bread and jam (esp. BrE), bread and water▪He had to live on bread and water for two weeks.
▪ bread and wine (= in the Christian Communion service)▪People started going up to receive the bread and wine.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.