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break·fast (brek′fəst)
intransitive verb
transitive verb
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
breakfast
n.
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Converse of object
- cook: Chris cooked a late breakfast which was followed by beer at the Star.
Adjective modifier
- continental: A cooked or continental breakfast can be enjoyed in an elegant dining room.
Modifies a noun
- cereal: Try eating breakfast cereal without sugar, or use less.
Noun used with modifier
- buffet: Meals: Buffet breakfast with optional three or five course dinner.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
There were three ravens sat on a tree, They were as black as they might be. The one of them said to his make, 'Where shall we our breakfast take?'
'Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch, and tea Are all the human frame requires' With that the wretched child expires.
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