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Bread

Food And Drink
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A staple baked food made from grain. It often represents sustenance, labor, home, or spiritual nourishment.

Detailed Definition
Bread carries powerful poetic associations because it is both ordinary and sacred. A loaf can embody the daily work of planting, milling, kneading, and baking, gathering many unseen hands into a single domestic image. Biblical and devotional poetry may make bread a figure for grace, sacrifice, or shared life. Modern poems also use it to address hunger, wages, migration, and the unequal distribution of basic necessities.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Blake writes of “the bread of sweet content” in “The Divine Image,” making bread a figure for spiritual nourishment; In the Lord’s Prayer, “daily bread” has made bread a lasting poetic symbol of basic human need; A poet might write, “She divided her last bread into four small moons,” using visual metaphor to show generosity; Bread can also represent domestic comfort when placed against images of war, exile, or hunger
Additional Notes
Bread may be literal food or a symbol of earned survival, shared home life, religious ritual, and daily necessity.
Also Known As
Loaf Staff of Life
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