brede

brede (plural bredes)

1. (obsolete) Ornamental embroidery.
   • 1746, William Collins, “Ode to Evening”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     […] while now the bright-hair'd Sun / Sits in yon western Tent, whose cloudy Skirts, / With Brede ethereal wove

2. (obsolete) A braid.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “The Princess”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede.

• brede-stitch

• Breed, berde, breed, rebed

• IPA^(key): /breːðə/, [ˈb̥ʁæðð̩]

From Old Norse breiða, from Proto-Germanic *braidijaną (“to broaden”).

brede (past tense bredte, past participle)

1. (transitive) to spread
2. (reflexive, intransitive) to spread

• brede ud
• udbrede

• “brede” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brede

1. definite singular of bred
2. plural of bred

• IPA^(key): /ˈbreː.də/

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• Hyphenation: bre‧de
• Rhymes: -eːdə
• Homophone: Breede

brede

1. inflection of breed:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• breed

From Old English brǣde, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *brādō, from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”). Doublet of brawne.

• bræde, bræd (early)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛːd(ə)/

brede (plural bredes)

1. (collectively) (Pieces of) roasted meat.
2. (specifically) A piece of roasted meat.

   Synonym: hastelet

3. (hunting) One of thirty-two choice parts of a boar for roasting.

   Synonym: hastelet

• breden (“to grill”)

• Scots: brede

• “brēde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• David Scott-Macnab (2010) “The Medieval Boar and its Haslets”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎, volume 111, number 3, Modern Language Society, pages 355-366

From the oblique cases of Old English bred, from Proto-West Germanic *bred, from Proto-Germanic *bredą.

• bræde (early)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛːd(ə)/, /ˈbrɛd(ə)/

brede (plural bredes)

1. board, slab
2. tablet (small board with writing)

• moldebred
• paxbrede

• Scots: bred

• “brēd, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English brǣdu, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *braidī, from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄.

• breed, breede, breide
• bræde, breade (early)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛːd(ə)/

brede (uncountable)

1. breadth (measure of how wide something is):
   1. A piece of fabric of standard width.
   2. (geometry) A circle's diameter.
2. extent (space to which something extends):
   1. The total extent of a surface or object.
   2. (figurative) The extent or totality of one's feelings.

• breden (“to spread”)
• bredthe
• hondbrede
• weybrede

• English: bread (“breadth”) (dialectal)
• Scots: brede, breid

• “brēde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

brede

1. Alternative form of bred (“bread”)

brede

1. Alternative form of breid

brede

1. Alternative form of brerd

brede

1. Alternative form of breden (“to grill”)

brede

1. Alternative form of breden (“to spread”)

brede

1. Alternative form of breden (“to breed”)

brede

1. Alternative form of breiden

brede

1. definite singular of bred
2. plural of bred

brede m (definite singular breden, indefinite plural bredar, definite plural bredane)

1. Alternative form of bre

From English bread.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbre.de/

brede

1. bread

brede

1. definite natural masculine singular of bred

• beder, bered