breakfast
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.
- 2.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)(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.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)(largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To eat the morning meal.
May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
- 2.
(transitive)To serve breakfast to.
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From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with breekvasten.