bed-and-breakfast

or bed and break·fast

[ bed-n-brek-fuhst ]

noun

1. an accommodation offered by an inn, hotel, or especially a private home, consisting of a room for the night and breakfast the next morning for one inclusive price.
2. an inn, hotel, or private home offering such an accommodation. : B&B

bed and breakfast

noun

1. (in a hotel, boarding house, etc) overnight accommodation and breakfast

adjective

1. (of a stock-exchange transaction) establishing a loss for tax purposes, shares being sold after hours one evening and bought back the next morning when the market opens

Word History and Origins

Origin of bed-and-breakfast¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Idioms and Phrases

Also, B and B . A hotel or other hostelry that offers a room for the night and a morning meal at an inclusive price. For example, Staying at a bed and breakfast meant never having to plan morning meals . This term and the practice originated in Britain and have become widespread. [Early 1900s]

Example Sentences

My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.

From The Daily Beast

I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.

From The Daily Beast

The distinction between over-policing and non-responsiveness was alive and well in Bed-Stuy.

From The Daily Beast

At Woodhull Hospital, the Bed-Stuy ambulance crew kept doing all they could as they wheeled Ramos into the emergency room.

From The Daily Beast

While violent offenses are dramatically down in Bed Stuy, pockets of violence persist here.

From The Daily Beast

She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

From Project Gutenberg

The embankment or road-bed was commenced by gigantic piling, and is very broad and substantial.

From Project Gutenberg

Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.

From Project Gutenberg

A little boy had been quarrelling with his sister named Muriel just before going to bed.

From Project Gutenberg

She folded them tightly in a handkerchief, and thrust the parcel as far as her arm could reach between the mattress and the bed.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• B and B
• B&B