break bread

Verb

Meaning

have a meal, usually with company

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Synonyms

sup mange eat feed consume dining breakfast lunch banquet snack partake graze dine devour chew

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Antonyms

eat freely eat a lot eat abundantly eat copiously consume extensively consume in great quantities

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Hypernyms

eat

Examples

The early Christian disciples broke bread together Source: Internet

At The Trade Desk we love to break bread, compete, and get sweaty together. Source: Internet

Sitting before the elderly man in that Venetian villa was a balding, magnificently bearded Allen Ginsberg, the Beat poet and Jewish Buddhist, there to break bread with Pound. Source: Internet

The Eucharist is mentioned again in chapter 14. 14.1 But every Lord's day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. 14.2. Source: Internet

ELIZABETHTOWN — A community came together for a unity march and to break bread at the Johnson Park on Saturday. Source: Internet

Paul and the Christians of Troas, for example, gathered on Sunday "to break bread," "Sunday." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

break bone fever break boundary break bounds break bulk break by smacking against break camp