Sekirov Dictionary

breakfast

UK /ˈbreɪkˌfɑːst/US /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/

noun 4
verb 2
forms 3
phrases 2

noun4

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the meal that people eat soon after they get up 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.
•
A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
- We serve breakfast all day.
The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
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A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
- The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. — 1684

verb2

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To eat the morning meal.
- May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
•
To serve breakfast to.
- By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea — 1987

forms

breakfasted · breakfasting · breakfasts

Phrases with breakfast

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