breakfast

UK /ˈbɹɛk.fəst/ US /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/
noun 4verb 2

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.

We serve breakfast all day.

3

The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).

4

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

The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

verb

1

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![…]”

2

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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