Dictionary entry

Bread

Pronunciation: /brɛd/

Pronunciation

/brɛd/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ပေါင်မုန့်။

Definition

bread /bred/ n [U] ၁။ ေပါင္မုန္႔။ a loaf/slice/piece of bread ❍ wholemeal bread ❍ brown/white bread. See also CRISPBREAD, GINGERBREAD ၂။ ( sl ) ေငြ။ ပိုက္ဆံ။ ❏ bread and butter /bred n 'bʌtǝ(r)/ n [U] ၁။ ေပါင္မုန္႔ ေထာပတ္သုတ္။ ၂။ ( infml ) အသက္ေမြးမႈ။ He's trying to get work as an actor, but he earns his bread and butter as a waiter. ❍ Jobs, pensions and housing are the bread-and-butter issues of politics (ie the basic ones). ❏ bread and water [ IDM ] ( Brit ) အ႐ိုးဆံုး၊ အသက္သာဆံုး အစားအစာ။ I had to live on bread and water when I was a student. ❏ bread bin n ( Brit ) ( US bread box ) ေပါင္မုန္႔ပံုး။ ❏ take the bread out of sb's mouth [ IDM ] သူတစ္ပါး ထမင္းအိုးကို ခြဲသည္။

Examples

  1. Bread and butter
  2. A slice of bread
  3. Wholemeal/white/olive bread
  4. Have you ever tried making bread?
  5. A bread roll