Meanings
- rareuncountablePolish bread.
Mountains of chleb teetered on plates.
2004, Helen McCourt Mentek, “The Wheel of Life”, in Ripples on a Puddle: A Collection of Short Stories, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 2284 more examples
Upstairs at the Polish Club / Among plastic palms and gossip, / While Wujiu Jerzy / Sells kielbasy and chleb—[…]
1997, Noëlle Janaczewska, “Historia”, in Peta Tait, Elizabeth Schafer, editors, Australian Women’s Drama: Texts and Feminisms (Currency Plays), Sydney, N.S.W.: Currency Press, →ISBN, page 280[…] dough for the chleb beaten down with imprints of her fists and knuckles […] the moist ferment staring at her in anticipation of being molded baked buttered into something fantastic succulent artistic slices of chleb […]
2000, Tarisa Ann M. Matsumoto, “Zoltan’s Food”, in Shadowgraph and Zoltan’s Food, Ames, Ia.: Iowa State University, →DOI, →OCLC, section “Advent of Red”, page 55In the safety of her bedroom, with a litre of water and a slice of chleb inside her, things felt better again.
2008, Polly Courtney, chapter 15, in Poles Apart, Leicester: Matador, →ISBN, page 81The diner where the soup was almost free (three zloty, with chleb and margarine) has closed, dumping its coarse clientele into history.
2016 July 7, Michel Faber, “Since You Last Visited Sopot”, in Undying: A Love Story, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, →ISBN
Origin
- Polishchleb
- Englishchleb
Borrowed from Polish chleb. Doublet of khleb and loaf.
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chleb. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chleb
“chleb.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chleb. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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