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Breakfast

//ˈbɹɛk.fəst// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. countable, uncountable

    "You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow."

  2. 2
    the first meal of the day (usually in the morning) wordnet
  3. 3
    A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc. broadly, countable, uncountable

    "We serve breakfast all day."

  4. 4
    The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral). countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting. countable, uncountable

    "The wolves will get a breakfast by my death."

Verb
  1. 1
    To eat the morning meal. intransitive

    "May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast."

  2. 2
    eat an early morning meal wordnet
  3. 3
    To serve breakfast to. transitive

    "By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea"

  4. 4
    provide breakfast for wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

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