breakfast
The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
Noun 4 meanings
The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
“You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.”
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).
A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
Verb 2 meanings
To eat the morning meal.
“May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.”
To serve breakfast to.
Etymology
From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).
BREAKFAST at a glance
BREAKFAST has 9 letters and scores 18 points in Scrabble (B 3 + R 1 + E 1 + A 1 + K 5 + F 4 + A 1 + S 1 + T 1) and 19 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,371 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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