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Definition of Breakfast
1. Verb. Eat an early morning meal. "Sam and Sue breakfast"; "We breakfast at seven"
2. Noun. The first meal of the day (usually in the morning).
Specialized synonyms: Continental Breakfast, Petit Dejeuner, Power Breakfast
3. Verb. Provide breakfast for.
Definition of Breakfast
1. n. The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
2. v. i. To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
3. v. t. To furnish with breakfast.
Definition of Breakfast
1. Noun. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. ¹
2. Noun. (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To eat the morning meal. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To serve breakfast to. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Breakfast
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breakfast
Literary usage of Breakfast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"Tte Superlative breakfast Fruit THOUGH it is but a few years since its introduction
to the American public, the grapefruit has won its way to such a ..."
2. American Book Prices Current (1913)
"Autocrat of the breakfast-Table. $16.00. Orig. cl. (first issue), Payson, A.,
... (337) $6.75- Professor at the breakfast Table. First edition. Bost., 1860. ..."
3. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
"Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding
on Teddy's shoulder, and they gave him banana and some "HE CAME TO breakfast ..."
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