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Collocations for bread - noun

ADJECTIVE

fresh
hard, mouldy/moldy, soggy, stale
This bread is going stale.
crusty
loaves of crusty French bread
sliced
unleavened
organic
home-baked, home-made
fried (esp. BrE), toasted
banana, garlic
black, brown, corn, granary, naan (esp. BrE), pitta/pita, pumpernickel (esp. AmE), rye, soda, sourdough, wheat, white, wholegrain, wholemeal (BrE), wholewheat
seven-grain, etc.

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… OF BREAD

loaf
package (AmE)
chunk, crumb, crust, hunk, morsel, piece, slice
She tore off a large hunk of bread.

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VERB + bread

bake, make
the smell of freshly baked bread
cut, slice
butter, put sth on, spread
bread thickly spread with peanut butter
toast

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bread + NOUN

dough
pudding (esp. BrE), roll, sauce (esp. BrE)
basket, bin (BrE), box (AmE), knife

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PREPOSITION

on bread
What would you like on your bread?

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PHRASES

bread and butter, bread and margarine
a plate of bread and butter
bread and cheese, bread and jam (esp. BrE), bread and water
He had to live on bread and water for two weeks.
bread and wine (= in the Christian Communion service)
People started going up to receive the bread and wine.

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