breadwinning
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning."
- "And the key issues that both batterers and battered women identify as triggers to battering are men's successes in breadwinning and the bedroom – the two Bs."
Etymology
From bread + winning. Compare West Frisian breawinning (“livelihood”), Dutch broodwinning (“profession”).