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break⋅fast

  [brek-fuhst]
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–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.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME brekfast. See break, fast 2

Related forms:
break⋅fast⋅er, noun
break⋅fast⋅less, adjective
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Word Origin & History

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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