A food made from flour, water, and usually yeast, baked into loaves or flat pieces.
From Old English “bread,” originally meaning “piece or bit of food,” while “loaf” referred to the whole baked mass. Over time, “bread” became the general word for baked grain food.
Bread is so central to human diets that in some English slang it even means “money,” the stuff you need to buy food. The word’s journey from “a bit of food” to the basic food captures how essential it is.
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