Breakfast
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbɹɛkfəst/
Origin
From break + fast; to end the nightly fast.
Full definition of breakfast
Noun
breakfast
(plural breakfasts)- The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
- 1591, Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, act 1:a sorry breakfast for my lord protector
- 1922, w, The Cuckoo in the Nest Chapter 1, 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 from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.
- (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.We serve breakfast all day.
- A meal after fasting, or food in general.
- DrydenThe wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
Derived terms
Verb
- (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
- He breakfasted on pizza and Coke.
- PriorFirst, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
- (transitive) To serve breakfast to.
- 1987, Anne McCaffrey, The Lady: A Tale of Ireland‎, By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea