breakfast time
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- noun
- /ˈbrɛkfəst taɪm/
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hora del desayuno
- At breakfast time, we have a devotion and/or Bible reading, poetry, and a picture book.
- morning at breakfast time
I don't know, but he's telling me it has to be breakfast time with hash Browns.
- I don't know, but he's telling me it has to be breakfast time with hash Browns.
- But I have a genuinely like wake up time, chill time, like work time, lunchtime, breakfast time.
Examples
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Luke and his carriage showed up in front of the house on Franklin Street at breakfast time.
Fiction book (1992) -
There was no wind today, and it was already hot on the balcony by breakfast time. Unfortunately, because of yesterday's little accident, there was no umbrella for shade.
Blog text (14) -
I'll see you in the morning around breakfast time.
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I'll be back by breakfast time.
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For now, it is breakfast time and I am starving.
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It is nearly breakfast time anyway.
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Yeah, it's breakfast time and I'm starving, Marvin, so let's go make some breakfast.
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On our first day in N Cypress, we had grilled halloumi at breakfast time at our hotel.
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Every day there would be a couple of periods—around breakfast time and again before dinner—when he was clear in his thoughts.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's breakfast time, so I'm going to make some eggs and toast.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the time of day when breakfast is usually eaten' is directly and compositionally derived from 'breakfast' (the morning meal) + 'time' (a specific point/occasion), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the phrase. This noun+noun/NP pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary English composition, making the expression transparent.
Etymology
Breakfast time comes from the words break and fast: after a night when you do not eat, called a 'fast', you 'break' it by eating, so breakfast time is the time of day when people stop the fast and have their first meal.