to breakfast

Examples

• All

• We've come to a garden centre this morning to have breakfast with Alfie's fam.

• I will breakfast with my family at our favorite restaurant this weekend.

• Yes, I will make you breakfast in bed.

  47 Meters Down (2017)

• You have to make them breakfast and you have to get them to school.

  Blog text (13)

• Yeah, you want me to make you breakfast?

  Moments in Spacetime (2020)

• I was just trying to make you breakfast.

  Sleight (2016)

• Will you make me breakfast?

  Life Like (2019)

• Let me make you breakfast.

  The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

• I'm going to make breakfast and a smoothie today.

• We've just breakfasted.

  Fiction book (1997)

Idioms

E

to eat (someone) for breakfast

• Informal

4 8.3

Defeat someone easily without much effort

E

to eat you for breakfast

• Informal

1 8.4

Beat someone easily to show you are much better

D

dog's breakfast

• UK

1 9.5

A situation or job that is very messy and done badly

L

to look like a dog's breakfast

• UK

9.9

Appear very messy and untidy

Compounds

B

bed and breakfast

24 2.1

A small place to stay overnight that serves breakfast but not other meals

B

breakfast in bed

17 1.5

A meal eaten in bed, usually in the morning

B

breakfast table

11 1.0

A table where people eat breakfast

B

bed-and-breakfast

9 3.1

A small home where you stay overnight and have breakfast

B

breakfast time

7 1.0

Time of day when people eat breakfast

C

continental breakfast

7 1.6

A light morning meal of bread and pastries with coffee or tea

B

breakfast food

5 1.0

Food people usually eat in the morning, like cereal or eggs

B

breakfast nook

• US

4 3.0

A small space near the kitchen with a table or seat where people eat breakfast

B

breakfast buffet

3 1.6

A morning meal where you serve yourself from many foods like eggs, bread and fruit

H

hearty breakfast

2 1.6

A filling morning meal with foods like eggs and toast

B

breakfast area

1 1.0

A small space near the kitchen for eating breakfast

E

English breakfast tea

1 1.4

A strong black tea blend often served with milk at breakfast

P

power breakfast

• Literature

1 4.8

A morning meeting where important people discuss business over breakfast

B

breakfast staple

1.8

A common food people eat for breakfast, like toast or cereal

N

New York breakfast

• US

3.3

A big morning meal with bagels, cream cheese, and smoked salmon

How Filling

to dine

• Formal

100 1.3

to brunch

5 2.6

to lunch

33 1.0

to breakfast

14 1.0

to snack

27 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology