Daily bread
/ˈdeɪli ˌbɹɛd/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 All those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life. uncountable
"to earn one's daily bread"
- 2 All those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life. wordnet
- 3 All those things, such as regular prayer, worship and meditation, needed to sustain spiritual life. broadly, uncountable
"I thynke it mete / that euery Chriſten man not only knowe it [the Epistle to the Romans] by rote and with oute the boke / but alſo exerciſe him ſelfe therin euermore continually / as with the dayly brede of the ſoule."
Example
More examples"[Verse] 11. Panem noſtrum ſuperſubſtātialem da nobis hodie. Giue vs this day our daily bread."
Etymology
Possibly a reference to the Lord's Prayer in the Bible, part of which reads in the King James Version: “Give us this day our daily bread” (see Matthew 6:11, and compare Luke 11:3).