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breakfast
English
Etymology
From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break +? fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbry?e, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??kf?st/
- (meal eaten after religious fasting): also IPA(key): /?b?e?k?fæst/
Noun
breakfast (countable and uncountable, 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
- (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.
- 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.
- c. 1693?, John Dryden, Amaryllis
- The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
- c. 1693?, John Dryden, Amaryllis
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.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Afrikaans: brekfis
- ? Irish: bricfeasta
- ? Maori: parakuihi
- ? Scottish Gaelic: bracaist
- ? Welsh: brecwast
Translations
See also
- brunch
- jentacular
Verb
breakfast (third-person singular simple present breakfasts, present participle breakfasting, simple past and past participle breakfasted)
- (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, volume II, chapter I, page 12
- "Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted! […] "
- May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.
- First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, volume II, chapter I, page 12
- (transitive) To serve breakfast to.
Synonyms
- break one's fast
Translations
Anagrams
- fast break, fastbreak
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breakfasting
English
Verb
breakfasting
- present participle of breakfast
Noun
breakfasting (plural breakfastings)
- The act of eating breakfast.
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