Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - bread

(breads, breading, breaded) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Bread is a very common food made from flour, water, and yeast. ...a loaf of bread... There is more fibre in wholemeal bread than in white bread. N-MASS 2. If food such as fish or meat is breaded, it is covered in tiny pieces of dry bread called breadcrumbs. It can then be fried or grilled. It is important that food be breaded just minutes before frying. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed • breaded ...breaded fish. ADJ