Breakfast Definition

brĕkfəst
breakfasts
noun
The first meal of the day, typically eaten in the morning.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • English breakfast
  • petit déjeuner (French)
  • continental-breakfast
  • breaking the fast
  • petit déjeuner (French)
  • morning meal
  • brunch
  • early meal
  • first meal of the day
verb
To eat breakfast.
Webster's New World
To give breakfast to.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Breakfast

Noun

Singular:
breakfast
Plural:
breakfasts

Origin of Breakfast

  • Middle English brekfast breken to break break faste a fast (from Old Norse fasta to fast past- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From break + fast; to end the nightly fast.

    From Wiktionary

Breakfast Sentence Examples

  • Sit down and have breakfast with us.

  • We'll all have breakfast together.

  • After breakfast tomorrow she would leave.

  • Breakfast was on the table when she entered the dining room.

  • Even Bird Song's gilded front sign, advertising the bed and breakfast, had been washed of a year's dust from the unpaved side street.

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Words Starting With

BBRBRE

Words Ending With

TSTAST

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Words Starting With B and Ending With T

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With B9 Letter Words Ending With T