Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
- v. To eat breakfast: We breakfasted on the terrace.
- v. To provide breakfast for.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The first meal in the day; the meal by which one breaks the fast lasting from the previous day; the food eaten at the first meal.
- n. A meal or food in general.
- To eat the first meal in the day.
Wiktionary
- n. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
- n. by extension A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
- v. intransitive To eat the morning meal.
- v. transitive To serve breakfast to.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
- n. A meal after fasting, or food in general.
- v. To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
- v. To furnish with breakfast.
WordNet 3.0
- v. provide breakfast for
- v. eat an early morning meal
- n. the first meal of the day (usually in the morning)
Etymologies
- From break + fast; to end the nightly fast. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English brekfast : breken, to break; see break + faste, a fast (from Old Norse fasta, to fast; see past- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I had eaten my breakfast; "" Yes, but Adam Clarke came _before breakfast_, "responded the merchant.”
“The best part of this breakfast is the small bread round that you cook alongside the egg.”
“I make what I call breakfast, deal with real life for a while — anything from splitting wood to sending emails — before the late afternoon when I head up the mountain.”
Stray Questions for: Josh Weil - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
“During the week my breakfast is a couple of slices of bread in the toaster and a fermented milk drink, eaten every day by myself at far too early an hour.”
“I don't know, sir," he said, "whether you're aware of it -- I presume you're a stranger, like myself -- but all they _allow_ for what they call breakfast in this hotel is tea or coffee, rolls, and butter; everything else is charged extra.”
“I can see my old cousin still in what she termed her breakfast room, dressed very handsomely, standing before a bare mahogany table on which a maid placed the considerable array of a silver salver without legs, which was set on a folded cloth and held the sugar-loaf and the sugar-cutter; and another salver with legs that bore various bowls and one beautiful silver sugar-box which was kept filled high for her husband's toddy.”
“Frenchman never eats what we call breakfast; that is, he never makes a really heavy meal, the first thing in the morning.”
The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War
“Barrin 'the first foundation in the kitchen within," he replied; "for you must know that's what I call my breakfast, handsel of any kind didn't cross my palm this day.”
“Adjacent to the range wall, we designed a small pantry and what we call a breakfast bar.”
“Not fat on it at all and loads of brown sauce MMmmmm now THAT's what I call breakfast!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘breakfast’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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food and drinks
honey, breakfast, omelette, cheese, salami, hot dog, sausage, turkish salami, butter, olives, muesli, tofurkey
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Killjoy et al
Namely, compounds consisting of a verb with a direct object immediately after it, without inflection
killjoy, lickspigot, quakebuttock, throttlebottom, scattergood, scapegrace, swillbowl, tosspot, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought and 84 more...
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ambilexicon
Heebie-jeebies
hands, houses, birds, boats, bathysphere, hammer, held, balance, boxes, hoax, breakfast, hear and 8 more...
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Stuffie: You haven't lived.
Stuff you have.
a fit and fall in it, the last word, the last laugh, boy, girl, baby, cow, at it, it all, the time of your ..., chub-on, conniption and 10 more...
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think fast
cragfast, Buckfast, colorfast, breastfast, chairfast, fading fast, headfast, handfast, breakfast, landfast, rifast, Ranafast and 34 more...
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Let's Eat!
Eating Verbs
boil, break bread, breakfast, chew, chomp, chow down, consume, cram, devour, diet, digest, dig in and 48 more...
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Instant List
Things that are instant.
noodles, messenger, coffee, approval, breakfast, camera, attraction, espresso, eye lift, facelift, film, gratification and 26 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Unfortunately Necessary Words
Words we have to use all the time, but that doesn't mean they sound good. In fact, they kind of suck. See also this list.
milk, cheese, neck, teeth, moist, dry, skin, head, feet, mouth, frankly, hair and 97 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Agentive Exocentric [V+N]N Compounds
Agentive and Instrumental Exocentric Verb-Noun Compounds that are still found in Modern English to some degree.
breakwater, sellsword, breakfast, scarecrow, cutthroat, pickpocket, turncoat, killjoy
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for breakfast.
Lee.courtney990@gmail.com !!!!!!what the heck Nov 30, 2011
lucianop breaking the fast Dec 14, 2006