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Collocations for bread - noun

ADJ.

fresh | hard, mouldy, soggy, stale
This bread is going stale.
crusty
some nice crusty white bread
sliced | unleavened | home-baked, home-made | fried | garlic | black, brown, granary, naan, pitta, rye, soda, white, wholemeal | French, Italian, etc.

QUANT.

loaf | chunk, crumb, crust, hunk, morsel, piece, slice
She tore off a large hunk of bread.

VERB + BREAD

bake, make
the smell of freshly-baked bread
cut, slice | butter, put sth on, spread
bread thickly spread with plum jam
toast

BREAD + NOUN

dough | pudding, roll, sauce | bin, knife

PREP.

on the ~
What would you like on your bread?

PHRASES

bread and butter/margarine
a plate of bread and butter
bread and cheese/jam, bread and water
He had to live on bread and water for two weeks.
bread and wine
(= the food given to Christians during the Communion service) People started going up to receive the bread and wine.

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