breakfast

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

   I always have eggs and toast for breakfast.

2. 2
   verb

   To eat breakfast.

   We usually breakfast at seven before going to work.

Common collocations

• continental breakfast Adjective + noun
• substantial breakfast Adjective + noun

From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).

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