breakfast
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).
Compound parts: break
fast
Inflected forms:
form: breakfasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breakfasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breakfasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breakfasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: breakfasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.
A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector.
His servant then flew like lightning and returned with a fine breakfast of wine and milk, and beautiful white bread and fruits, and such other things as little boys are fond of.
Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia’s mother was not a humourist.
gloss: A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: We serve breakfast all day.
gloss: The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
gloss: To eat the morning meal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.
First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
“Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted![…]”
Fifty years ago, the traveller might breakfast well at home in London, and take nothing more than a cup of coffee at King's Cross.
gloss: To serve breakfast to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea
Synonyms: break one's fast
Related words: brunch
jentacular
Derived words: all-day breakfast
American breakfast
bed-and-breakfast
bed and breakfast
bed-and-breakfast deal
bed-and-breakfast transaction
blunch
breakfast bar
breakfast burrito
breakfast cereal
breakfast club
Breakfast Creek
breakfastcup
breakfast-equipage
breakfaster
breakfast in bed
breakfast juice
breakfastless
breakfastlike
breakfast-mate
breakfast milk
breakfast of champions
breakfast potatoes
breakfast poutine
breakfast roll
breakfast sausage
breakfast set
breakfast stout
breakfast tea
breakfast television
breakfast tray
breakfastwards
breakfastware
breakfast wrap
breakfasty
brekker
brinner
brunch
bruncheon
brupper
builder's breakfast
bushman's breakfast
cat's breakfast
champagne breakfast
continental breakfast
deskfast
dingo's breakfast
dog's breakfast
eat for breakfast
eat someone for breakfast
English breakfast
English breakfast tea
full breakfast
full English breakfast
full Irish breakfast
full Scottish breakfast
Irish breakfast tea
lumberjack breakfast
Mexican breakfast
midbreakfast
New York breakfast
Olympic breakfast
Oslo breakfast
pig's breakfast
postbreakfast
power breakfast
prebreakfast
second breakfast
wedding breakfast
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