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bed-and-breakfast
[ bed-n-brek-fuhst ]
noun
- 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.
- an inn, hotel, or private home offering such an accommodation. : B&B
bed and breakfast
noun
- (in a hotel, boarding house, etc) overnight accommodation and breakfast
adjective
- (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
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.
I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.
The distinction between over-policing and non-responsiveness was alive and well in Bed-Stuy.
At Woodhull Hospital, the Bed-Stuy ambulance crew kept doing all they could as they wheeled Ramos into the emergency room.
While violent offenses are dramatically down in Bed Stuy, pockets of violence persist here.
She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
The embankment or road-bed was commenced by gigantic piling, and is very broad and substantial.
Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.
A little boy had been quarrelling with his sister named Muriel just before going to bed.
She folded them tightly in a handkerchief, and thrust the parcel as far as her arm could reach between the mattress and the bed.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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