noun
food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
• Syn: ↑bread, ↑breadstuff
• Hypernyms: ↑baked goods, ↑starches
• Hyponyms:
↑anadama bread, ↑bap, ↑barmbrack, ↑breadstick, ↑bread-stick, ↑brown bread, ↑Boston brown bread, ↑bun, ↑roll, ↑caraway seed bread, ↑challah, ↑hallah, ↑cinnamon bread, ↑cracked-wheat bread, ↑cracker, ↑crouton, ↑dark bread, ↑whole wheat bread, ↑whole meal bread, ↑English muffin, ↑flatbread, ↑garlic bread, ↑gluten bread, ↑Host, ↑loaf of bread, ↑loaf, ↑matzo, ↑matzoh, ↑matzah, ↑unleavened bread, ↑nan, ↑naan, ↑onion bread, ↑raisin bread, ↑quick bread, ↑rye bread, ↑salt-rising bread, ↑simnel, ↑sour bread, ↑sourdough bread, ↑toast, ↑wafer, ↑white bread, ↑light bread
• Part Holonyms: ↑sandwich
• Substance Meronyms: ↑flour
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produced a staff of life about two feet in length, and cut off a good thick slice for each of them — C.B.Fairbanks
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bread, considered as the mainstay of the human diet.
[1630-40]
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staff of life noun
Staple food, esp bread
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Main Entry: ↑staff
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staff of life,
1. bread: »
The staff of life is frequently of such spongy substance that it is incapable of giving much support (New York Times).
2. any basic or staple food: »
Water [for geese] is their staff of life (Punch). Broad beans form one of the staves of life in Sicily (D. Sladen).
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Main Entry: ↑life
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staff of life
literary : a basic food; especially : ↑bread
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Main Entry: ↑staff
Useful english dictionary. 2012.