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

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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

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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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