bed and breakfast
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- noun
- /bɛd ənd ˈbrɛkfəst/
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- We sat drinking coffee in rocking chairs on the front porch of a bed and breakfast on a hill.
- bed and breakfast inn
- stay in a bed and breakfast
- open a bed and breakfast
She's an adult, but she works at this bed and breakfast with her two aunts in a small town.
- She's an adult, but she works at this bed and breakfast with her two aunts in a small town.
- So my mum, my brother and I were staying in in a room in this bed and breakfast in Harlow.
- I'm pretty sure it's like she has to go back to run her little like lake establishment, like a bed and breakfast.
- Like I would often stay in like bed and breakfasts and stuff because that would be the only thing that these small towns had.
- Like last year we got him like a like a night at a really nice bed and breakfast and that that's got an amazing restaurant attached to it.
- And so we created this concept called the Air Bed and Breakfast.
- And then I was back in the UK and I was watching television and the owner of the Bed and Breakfast are on TV because it's Dom and Steph from Google Box.
- And then I was back in the UK and I was watching television and the owner of the Bed and Breakfast are on TV because it's Dom and Steph from Gogglebox.
Examples
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Fall is a great time to visit Louisville and stay in one of our wonderful bed and breakfasts.
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Uh, I stayed at a bed and breakfast.
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So she goes to apply for a job at a bed and breakfast and, OK, come here.
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- You know, I run a bed and breakfast just up the road.
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- Stay at some little bed and breakfast.
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Someday I would love to live on a farm and have my own bed and breakfast with chickens all around.
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Come on down to the Lockhouse Bed and Breakfast!
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As you can see, we own a bed and breakfast in Brookville.
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The Inn on the Hill is in downtown and is a gorgeous bed and breakfast.
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I can only reiterate how stunning this bed and breakfast truly is, and wholeheartedly recommend visiting.
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Synonyms
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1.0
A building where people pay to stay and get meals and other services
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1.0
A small hotel in the countryside that offers rooms and meals
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A place like a hotel that offers rooms for travelers to stay overnight
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a small lodging that provides an overnight stay and breakfast' is directly derivable from combining 'bed' (place to sleep) and 'breakfast' (morning meal) joined by 'and' to indicate both services. This compositional pattern is common and cross‑linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will very likely infer the lodging meaning.
Etymology
Bed and breakfast started with small homes that rented out a bed for the night and served breakfast in the morning. Because guests stayed overnight and got a morning meal, the phrase came to mean 'a small place to stay that gives you breakfast'.