breakfast

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The time appointed for the breakfast was at seven o'clock.

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  1. noun The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
  2. intransitive verb To eat breakfast: We breakfasted on the terrace.
  3. transitive verb To provide breakfast for.

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  • Anyway, the breakfast was a group of 75 or so entrepreneurs, VCs and service providers gathered to give the AlwaysOn team some perspective on the Boston start-up community.
  • As always, the breakfast was a lot of fun, but I had even more fun reading through the comments that so many of you send along with your award ballots. —  Asimov'sSF,September2007
  • In honor of the distinguished guests, a breakfast was arranged at Godesburg, a resort near Bonn, at which some compositions of Beethoven's were performed by the Elector's orchestra. —  Beethoven
  • Joining Connie at the breakfast were her husband Courtney and her daughter Cor-delia. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • Cost for the breakfast is adults $6, children up to 10 years $4 and $20 for a family of four.
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  1. Middle English brekfast : breken, to break; see break + faste, a fast (from Old Norse fasta, to fast; see past- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Late Middle English brekefaste; from break + fast, n. Cf. French déjeuner, a breakfast, from déjeuner, break fast: see déjeuner.
  2. from breakfast, n.; orig. two words, break fast.
 

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