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break⋅fast
[brek-fuh
st] 
–noun
| 1. | the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m. |
| 2. | the food eaten at the first meal of the day: a breakfast of bacon and eggs. |
–verb (used without object)
| 3. | to eat breakfast: He breakfasted on bacon and eggs. |
–verb (used with object)
| 4. | to supply with breakfast: We breakfasted the author in the finest restaurant. |
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| break·fast (brěk'fəst) n. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. v. break·fast·ed, break·fast·ing, break·fasts v. intr. To eat breakfast: We breakfasted on the terrace. v. tr. To provide breakfast for. [Middle English brekfast : breken, to break; see break + faste, a fast (from Old Norse fasta, to fast; see past- in Indo-European roots).] break'fast·er n. |
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Breakfast
Break"fast\, n. [Break + fast.]1. The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. A sorry breakfast for my lord protector. --Shak. 2. A meal after fasting, or food in general. The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. --Dryden.Breakfast
Break"fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. breakfasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breakfasting.] To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. --Prior.Breakfast
Break"fast\, v. t. To furnish with breakfast. --Milton.
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Language Translation for : breakfast
Spanish:
desayuno,
German:
das Frühstück,
Japanese:
朝食
breakfast
1463, from break (v.) + fast (n.). Cf. Fr. déjeuner "to breakfast," from L. dis-jejunare "to break the fast." The verb is recorded from 1679. The Sp. almuerzo "lunch," but formerly and still locally "breakfast," is from L. admorsus, pp. of admordere "to bite into," from ad- "to" + mordere "to bite." Words for "breakfast" tend over time to shift in meaning toward "lunch;" cf. Fr. déjeuner "breakfast," later "lunch" (equivalent of Sp. desayuno "breakfast"), both from V.L. *disieiunare "to breakfast," from L. dis- + ieiunare "fast."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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