- an amount of bread that has been shaped and baked in one piece
- a loaf of bread
- Two white loaves, please.
- a sliced loaf
- Remove the crusts from a small sliced loaf.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
- small
- sliced
- …
- bake
- cut
- slice
- …
- pan
- tin
- a loaf of bread
Word Originnoun Old English hlāf, of Germanic origin; related to German Laib.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See loaf in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhalf a loaf (is better than no bread)
- (saying) you should be grateful for something, even if it is not as good, much, etc. as you really wanted; something is better than nothing
- The offer only amounted to half a loaf, but campaigners grabbed it anyway.
use your loaf (British English)
(also use your head British and North American English)
- (informal) used to tell somebody to think about something, especially when they have asked for your opinion or said something stupid
- ‘Why don't you want to see him again?’ ‘Oh, use your loaf!’
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