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. A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
- v. To eat the morning meal.
- v. 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
- Middle English brekfast : breken, to break; see break + faste, a fast (from Old Norse fasta, to fast; see past- in Indo-European roots).
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.”
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“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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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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think fast
cragfast, Buckfast, colorfast, breastfast, chairfast, fading fast, headfast, handfast, breakfast, landfast, rifast, Ranafast and 34 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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Instant List
Things that are instant.
noodles, messenger, coffee, approval, breakfast, camera, attraction, espresso, eye lift, facelift, film, gratification and 26 more...
Lee.courtney990@gmail.com !!!!!!what the heck Nov 30, 2011
lucianop breaking the fast Dec 14, 2006