BREAKFAST
breakfast
(noun) the first meal of the day (usually in the morning)
breakfast
(verb) eat an early morning meal; “We breakfast at seven”
breakfast
(verb) provide breakfast for
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
breakfast (countable and uncountable, plural breakfasts)
The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
(by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
(largely obsolete, outside, religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
Usage notes
• In the sense "meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting", the word is more often spelled break-fast or break fast; it is also often pronounced differently.
Verb
breakfast (third-person singular simple present breakfasts, present participle breakfasting, simple past and past participle breakfasted)
(intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
(transitive) To serve breakfast to.
Synonyms
• break one's fast
Anagrams
• fast break, fastbreak
Source: Wiktionary
Break"fast, n. Etym: [Break + fast.]
1. The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. A sorry breakfast for my lord protector. Shak.
2. A meal after fasting, or food in general. The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. Dryden.
Break"fast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. breakfasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breakfasting.]
Definition: To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. Prior.
Break"fast, v. t.
Definition: To furnish with breakfast. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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