breadbox

See also: bread box

English

Alternative forms

• bread box, bread-box

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.?

Proto-Germanic *braudą

Proto-West Germanic *braud

Old English brēad

Middle English bred

English bread

English box

English breadbox

From bread + box.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɛd.bɒks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: bäks, IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɛd.bɑks/
• Rhymes: -ɒks

Noun

breadbox (plural breadboxes)

1. A container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh.

   Synonym: bread bin (UK)

2. (computing, slang) A Commodore 64 computer.
   • 2010, Barry Voeten, Colourcash, page 14:

     We had a computer at school, a Commodore 64. The thing had hardly any memory, not even one thousandth of an mp3-player kids use nowadays. To load a game you had to insert a cassette which transmitted a code by means of an endless series of beeps to a brown case we called "the bread box".

   • 2020, Holger Weßling, Impossible Mission I & II - The Official Guide:

     That's why he gave him a Commodore 64 in 1983. […] Nick […] had converted his cupboards so that the shelf in which the bread box was located could be pulled out a little. So the head was nicely in line with the TV.

Translations

a container for storing bread

• Azerbaijani: çörəkqabı
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麵包盒 / 面包盒 (zh) (miànbāohé)

• Czech: chlebník (cs) m
• Dutch: broodtrommel (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: panskatolo
• Estonian: leivakarp
• Finnish: leipälaatikko (fi)
• French: panetière (fr) f
• German: Brotkasten (de) m
• Greek: ψωμιέρα (el) f (psomiéra)

  Ancient Greek: ἀρτοθήκη f (artothḗkē)

• Irish: cófra aráin m
• Japanese: ブレッドボックス (bureddo bokkusu), パンケース (pan kēsu)
• Korean: 빵 상자 (ppang sangja), 빵 저장통 (ppang jeojangtong)
• Latin: pānārium n
• Macedonian: лебарник m (lebarnik)
• Marathi: ब्रेडबॉक्स m (breḍbŏksa)
• Mongolian: талхны сав (talxny sav)
• Persian: تبنگو (fa) (tabangu), جانونی (jânuni)
• Polish: chlebak (pl) m
• Russian: хле́бница (ru) f (xlébnica)
• Serbo-Croatian: hlebarnik m, hljebarnik m, kutija za hljeb f
• Slovak: skrinka na chlieb f
• Spanish: panera (es) f
• Swedish: brödlåda (sv) c
• Turkish: ekmeklik (tr)
• Ukrainian: хлібниця f (xlibnycja)