breakfast
//ˈbɹɛk.fəst//
Forms
- Plural
- breakfasts
- present (v1)
- breakfast
- past (v2)
- breakfasted
- past participle (v3)
- breakfasted
- present participle
- breakfasting
- 3rd person singular
- breakfasts
Definitions
1.The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
- 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.
- 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.
2.A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
- We serve breakfast all day.
3.The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
- Tom came down to breakfast in his pajamas.
- I had breakfast at 7:30.
- He often eats breakfast here.
4.A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
- The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
1.To eat the morning meal.
- 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.
2.To serve breakfast to.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2459
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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”).