BREAD: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for BREAD?

Need another word that means the same as “bread”? Find 22 synonyms and 30 related words for “bread” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Bread” are: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum, breadstuff, staff of life, cash, ready money

Bread as a Noun

Definitions of "Bread" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “bread” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Money.
• Food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked.
• The bread or wafer used in the Eucharist.
• Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
• The food that one needs in order to live.
• Informal terms for money.

Synonyms of "Bread" as a noun (22 Words)

boodle	Money, especially that gained or spent illegally or improperly. He spent 30 million of his own boodle trying to buy a Senate seat.
breadstuff	Flour or meal or grain used in baking bread.
cabbage	The leaves of cabbage eaten as a vegetable. Boiled cabbage.
cash	United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003. There is a desperate shortage of hard cash.
clams	Flesh of either hard shell or soft shell clams.
dinero	Money. Their pockets full of dinero.
dough	A flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll. Lots of dough.
gelt	Informal terms for money.
kale	Coarse curly-leafed cabbage.
lettuce	Used in names of other plants with edible green leaves e g lamb s lettuce sea lettuce.
lolly	A lollipop or ice lolly. You ve done brilliantly raising all that lovely lolly.
loot	Goods or money obtained illegally. Ten thousand quid is a lot of loot.
lucre	Informal terms for money. Officials getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre.
moolah	Money.
pelf	Informal terms for money. Damnation dog thee and thy wretched pelf.
ready money	Poised for action.
scratch	A depression scratched or carved into a surface. The scratches on her arm were throbbing.
shekels	Informal terms for money.
simoleons	Informal terms for money.
staff of life	Building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration.
sugar	A sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants especially sugar cane and sugar beet consisting essentially of sucrose and used as a sweetener in food and drink. Oh sugar cried Sally.
wampum	Informal terms for money. Strings of wampum.

Usage Examples of "Bread" as a noun

• I hate doing this, but I need the bread.
• A bread roll.
• Altar bread.
• A loaf of bread.
• His day job puts bread on the table.
• Italian breads.

Associations of "Bread" (30 Words)

bacon	Cured meat from the back or sides of a pig. Crisp rashers of bacon.
bake	A social gathering at which baked food of a specified kind is eaten. Lobster bakes.
baked	Cooked by dry heat (as in an oven. Baked goods.
bakery	A place where bread and cakes are made or sold. Bakery items.
batter	(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting. The loss of his baby turned him into a domineering bully who battered his partner.
cake	Small flat mass of chopped food. His clothes were caked in mud.
confection	Make into a confection. Therese was magnificent in a swirling confection of crimson.
confectionery	The occupation and skills of a confectioner. Chocolate and fudge are made daily at the village confectionery.
cookie	The cook on a ranch or at a camp. She s a tough cookie.
crispy	Tender and brittle. Crispy fried bacon.
crumb	Break into crumbs. He s an absolute crumb.
crust	Form a crust or form into a crust. A kindly old woman might give her a crust.
dessert	The sweet course eaten at the end of a meal. A dessert of chocolate mousse.
flour	Cover with flour. Manioc flour.
fried	(of food) cooked in hot fat or oil. I had just come from doing a shoot and I was really fried.
goody	A good or favoured person, especially a hero in a book, film, etc.
grill	Cook over a grill. The student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology.
johnnycake	A small, thin unleavened wheat loaf baked in wood ashes.
oven	An enclosed compartment, usually part of a cooker, for cooking and heating food. The sun was beating down on to my little tent and it was like an oven in there.
pancake	With reference to an aircraft make or cause to make a pancake landing. Hurley s car was pancaked.
partake	Join in (an activity. Visitors can partake in golfing or clay pigeon shooting.
paste	Fasten or stick something with paste. Paste the sign on the wall.
pastry	An item of food consisting of sweet pastry with a cream jam or fruit filling. Spread the mixture over the pastry.
pie	A baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry. A good meal of hot pie and peas.
pizza	Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese. A cheese and tomato pizza.
recipe	Directions for making something. A traditional Yorkshire recipe.
refreshment	Snacks and drinks served as a light meal. An ample supply of liquid refreshment.
sandwich	Make into a sandwich. She was sandwiched in her airplane seat between two fat men.
toast	Slices of bread that have been toasted. We were spread out on the grass toasting ourselves one hot day.
toaster	Someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture.