Why is it called a bread plate?

It's a plate with bread on it.

I think it's too small to be a board.

In my usage, a bread board is designed for slicing (larger, no rim) a bread plate is for serving.

Looks like a wooden plate or platter with bread on it. Not necessarily a "bread plate". Where did you find this?

It could be either. "Boards" are usually made from wood, but this is more of a "plate" shape and size.

I wouldn’t call it a break plate (USA).

I (US) would assume "[Breadboard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard)" was in reference to electronics, personally. It's a legitimate use of the word but the people I know would almost definitely go with cutting board. I think I would call that a (wooden) serving plate/dish.

I would call it a bread board (UK) but maybe it’s regional.

Plate for bread

It's a plate and there's a bread on it.

it’s a plate for your bread

A bread board is probably gonna be a rectangle shape and used to make the bread, while the bread plate is to serve the bread for people to eat. ( I think )

Well, it appears to be a plate for bread.

Nobody I know would ever call that a bread plate. Where did you get that? From a wannabe TikTok English teacher lol?

Because it's a **plate** with **bread** on it.

That’s a breadboard that is (GB)

because it's a plate that you put bread on

Molten breads ╥_╥

It is a wooden plate, with bread on it.

A bread board is to cut bread on, hence big enough for a loaf. Flat so the knife can go right through the loaf.

It's a bread board, or a cutting board. Plate is metal or ceramic, rarely wooden.

A bread board is usually flat and rectangular and is suitable for cutting bread on. This doesn't appear to be very suitable as it is round and not flat. I have never heard of a specific thing called a "bread plate" but I could understand why someone might use that description for this if they were in the habit of serving bread on it.

Nope: raised edges makes for difficult slicing

In the U.K. I’ve never heard of a bread plate, I’d call that a bread board or a chopping board

“Bread plate” is not a term I have ever heard in 54 years as a native speaker. (Location New England). Not once.

If I heard “bread plate” I’d think of the small plate you get first at a restaurant for bread or appetizers, that’s not the big plate for your main dish. I think bread board is more appropriate for OP’s picture. But I don’t ever use either of those words. Unless you’re publishing a novel, don’t worry about it.

It's probably a bread board that some people call a plate. I really doubt anyone would be confused with either usage.

I've never come across a 'bread plate' - that is, a plate specifically for putting bread on. If I were asked to get a cake stand, I would know exactly what to get, even if it didn't have cake on it; if I were asked to get a bread plate, i would have no idea what it refers to. Pictured is a plate with bread on it, rather than a 'bread plate'.

I’m a Brit and I’ve never heard the term bread plate before.

You can see bread

A "bread plate" is quite normal English, though I think even more commonly it's called a side plate. It's a small plate that you have at the left side of your main plate when you eat in a restaurant or formal service. It's literally a plate to put your bread on. The image is then joking, because it's a whole loaf, not the customary small roll or slice.

That isn't a bread plate. A bread plate is a small plate that sits to the side of your main plate, upon which you set your piece of bread. Most people don't use them any longer, but if you are at a more formal place (restaurant, banquet, etc), the place settings will most likely include a bread plate. That, in the photo, is a wooden serving platter with bread on it.

well, a tool used for shredding things is often just called a “cheese grater” but it’s not just for cheese. It’s just a good descriptive way to say what it is I suppose

Just saw the cheese board post. We're likely about to get a series of posts just like this one until it becomes a joke, then it'll become an overused joke, then it'll die

Boards are usually flat. That seems to have a rim. But people use different words for the same thing. There's no exact, standard defintion of a plate or a board. Is it bread, or a barm or a bap or a bun, batch, boule, cob, softie, stotty, barm cake, bloomer, coburg, grannary...?

Usually a board is rectangular, and doesn't have a rim. The wooden planks that you would use to build a house or a table are also called "boards". This is plate-shaped (round, with a rim), and it has bread on it. I've never heard anyone use "bread plate" as the actual name for a *type* of plate, but it still makes sense as a description of the plate you habitually serve bread with, or just any random plate that has bread on it.

in my opinion in normal speech bread board/bread plate are pretty interchangeable. But more pedantically i think a bread plate is a thing you serve bread on as opposed to a bread board which is a board you slice the bread on