breakfast
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- noun
- /ˈbrɛkfəst/
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- I usually have a smoothie and toast for breakfast each day.
- eat breakfast
- breakfast cereal
- breakfast in the morning
And what she told me at breakfast was moving.
- And what she told me at breakfast was moving.
- Maybe I'll skip breakfast and sleep some more.
- Texts, emojis, phone calls in purses, breakfasts on planes.
Examples
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I go to this place for breakfast tacos a lot.
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Her typical day starts with breakfast at 9; then she writes until early afternoon.
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And what she told me at breakfast was moving.
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Dude, it cannot take two hours to get breakfast, can it?
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This has been my go to breakfast for the past few weeks.
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You could just have a late breakfast close to your lunch.
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We had a quick small breakfast with coffee and tea.
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Wanna have breakfast at my house?
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Have you got time for breakfast?
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So we've just had some breakfast and I'm really stuffed now.
Synonyms
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1.0
A time when people eat, for example breakfast or dinner
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1.6
A light morning meal of bread and pastries with coffee or tea
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1.6
A filling morning meal with foods like eggs and toast
Idioms
Compounds
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3.0
A small space near the kitchen with a table or seat where people eat breakfast
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1.6
A morning meal where you serve yourself from many foods like eggs, bread and fruit
- Literature
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4.8
A morning meeting where important people discuss business over breakfast
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Breakfast comes from two simple words, break and fast. Fast here means 'not eating' and break means 'to stop', so breakfast is the meal that ends the night 'fast' and is the first meal of the day.