breakfast

[ brek-fuhst ]

noun

1. the first meal of the day; morning meal:

   A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.

2. the food eaten at the first meal of the day:

   a breakfast of bacon and eggs.

verb (used without object)

1. to eat breakfast:

   He breakfasted on bacon and eggs.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply with breakfast:

   We breakfasted the author in the finest restaurant.

breakfast

/ ˈbrɛkfəst /

noun

1. 1. the first meal of the day
   2. ( as modifier )

      a breakfast room

      breakfast cereal

2. the food at this meal
3. (in the Caribbean) a midday meal

verb

1. to eat or supply with breakfast

Derived Forms

• ˈbreakfaster, noun

Other Words From

• breakfast·er noun
• breakfast·less adjective
• post·breakfast adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of breakfast¹

First recorded in 1425–75, breakfast is from the late Middle English word brekfast. See break, fast ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of breakfast¹

C15: from break + fast ²

Example Sentences

“What we’re trying to do is be close enough to these young women that you can understand how, in their late teens and early 20s, they would join a paramilitary organization, believing that peaceful protest is never going to work. We want you to be there with them, but then also to see the human wreckage of their decisions,” Keefe said over breakfast in Manhattan, N.Y., where he was joined by Zetumer and director Michael Lennox.

From Los Angeles Times

“We go out for breakfast,” the Connecticut native says.

From Los Angeles Times

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Wes Streeting said he would change the government's grant to "make sure we're protecting our hospices" - with details announced before Christmas.

From BBC

“I couldn’t eat that morning, and I was sick about 15 minutes before we went on air,” Jen says of the interview with BBC Breakfast at the end of September.

From BBC

This interview with BBC Breakfast was the first time she’d agreed to waive her anonymity - meaning it was the first time she’d spoken publicly, as herself, about what she had been through almost four decades ago.

From BBC

Related Words

• brunch