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bed-and-breakfast

bed-and-breakfast

9 3.1
A small home where you stay overnight and have breakfast
  • noun
  • /ˈbɛd ənd ˈbrɛkfəst/
translation icon : cama y desayuno
  • She drove nearly to the end of the street to an old Victorian bed-and-breakfast called Errol Flynn's Hammock.
  • bed-and-breakfast inn
  • quaint bed-and-breakfast
  • room at a bed-and-breakfast

It's a picture of a the Epcot Ball rhinestones Bistro bed and breakfast Bar and Grill Cafe lounge on the water.

Examples

  • Hadn't she booked her stay in a licensed bed-and-breakfast for each night that she'd be traveling?

    Fiction book (2000)
  • I booked you in a very nice bed-and-breakfast on Cherry street.

  • We stayed overnight at a nice bed and breakfast and got home the next day in time to give Halloween candy to kids.

    Blog text (1)
  • Faia says the bed-and-breakfast will be available for guests staying at least a few nights beginning soon.

    Blog text (32)
  • It was a nice, quiet bed-and-breakfast on 44th.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Bill had spent the night at Mrs. McRae's bed-and-breakfast at Bighouse on the northern coast of Caithness.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • The modern-looking bed-and-breakfast belies its beginnings as a modest two-story frame home.

    Blog text (13)
  • The Channel Inn, a quaint little bed-and-breakfast fronting Main Street, occupied a small but choice plot of land with a fine view of the channel and the marshes beyond.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • My father and I have the bed-and-breakfast place behind the picket fence, across from Our Lady of the Harbor, with hip-high Shasta daisies and cosmos filling the small space between the house and the fence, separating us from the street.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • I stayed at a cozy bed-and-breakfast that offered homemade breakfast every morning.

Synonyms

inn
vsbed-and-breakfast
239 1.0

A small hotel in the countryside that offers rooms and meals

is usually in a private home and focuses specifically on breakfast
hostelry
vsbed-and-breakfast
  • Archaic
1 8.0

A place like a hotel that offers rooms for travelers to stay overnight

is usually in a private home and includes breakfast with the stay

How Comfortable

hotel
1.0
guesthouse
21 2.5
bed-and-breakfast
9 3.1
hostel
34 2.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

bed-and-breakfast = bed + breakfast (transparent) = bed + breakfast

The compound literally denotes a lodging offering a bed and breakfast, so its meaning is directly derivable from its parts.

Etymology

Bed-and-breakfast comes from the simple idea of offering a bed at night and breakfast in the morning in a private home. So a bed-and-breakfast is a small place to stay, often run by a family, where you get a room for the night and breakfast the next day.