Meaning

The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning..

Definitions by Sense

1. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
2. (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
4. (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
5. (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
6. (transitive) To serve breakfast to.

Example Sentences

You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.

I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.

A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector.

His servant then flew like lightning and returned with a fine breakfast of wine and milk, and beautiful white bread and fruits, and such other things as little boys are fond of.

Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia’s mother was not a humourist.

We serve breakfast all day.

The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

Word Forms

• breakfasts
• breakfasting
• breakfasted

Synonyms for break fast

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