breakfast

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UK /ˈbɹɛk.fəst/ US /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/

noun 4verb 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

big, full, good, hearty, large, proper, solid, substantial | light, modest | cooked, fried

continental, English, American-style

We usually have a continental breakfast of coffee and croissants when we travel to France.

BREAKFAST + NOUN

cereal

dishes, things

My mother washed all the breakfast dishes while I dried them.

room | meeting | show, television

PHRASES

bed and breakfast

We stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast during our trip to Scotland last summer.

breakfast in bed

My mother always enjoys having breakfast in bed on Sunday mornings.

Definitions

noun

The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.

A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector.

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).

A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.

The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

verb

To eat the morning meal.

May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

“Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted![…]”

To serve breakfast to.

By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea

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Idioms & Phrases

Mexican breakfast

A breakfast consisting of a cigarette and a glass of water.

dog's breakfast

An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.

So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. "A dog's breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not b

laugh before breakfast, cry before supper

It is unwise to be complacently happy because things may get worse.

Example Bank

You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.

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A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector.

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Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was fr

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May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

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“Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted![…]”

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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.

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