breakfast
Use Breakfast in a sentence
fəst 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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| —n | |
| 1. | a. the first meal of the day |
| b. (as modifier): breakfast cereal; a breakfast room | |
| 2. | the food at this meal |
| 3. | (in the Caribbean) a midday meal |
| —vb | |
| 4. | to eat or supply with breakfast |
| [C15: from | |
| 'breakfaster | |
| —n | |
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Breakfast
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Word Origin & History
breakfast
mid-15c., from break (v.) + fast (n.). The verb is recorded from 1670s. 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." Like almuerzo,
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, jejunare "fast" (see jejune; also cf. dine).
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Example sentences
From shortly after breakfast until almost dinner, they sat around tables, drinking wine.
Travel overnight, sleep overnight, show up for breakfast and go home the next night.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust and the deceased to the breakfast table as delicious reprocessed protein food products.
In all my travels, a breakfast table on a family farm is about as warm and friendly a place as you can find.
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