breakfast

breakfast
I UK [ˈbrekfəst] / US noun [countable/uncountable]
Word forms "breakfast":
singular breakfast plural breakfasts
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the first meal you have in the morning

What did you have for breakfast this morning?

I'm never hungry enough for a full breakfast.

a) a meal consisting of the things people often have for breakfast, for example eggs or bacon

Try our all-day breakfast – only £3.50!

b) [only before noun] used about things you eat for breakfast or use at breakfast time

breakfast cereal

a breakfast bar

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II UK [ˈbrekfəst] / US verb [intransitive]
Word forms "breakfast":
present tense I/you/we/they breakfast he/she/it breakfasts present participle breakfasting past tense breakfasted past participle breakfasted formal
to have breakfast

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  • breakfast — s.n. Micul dejun. [pr.: brécfăst] – cuv. engl. Trimis de valeriu, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98  BREAKFAST s. v. micul dejun. Trimis de siveco, 05.08.2004. Sursa: Sinonime  BREAKFAST s.n. (Anglicism …   Dicționar Român

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  • breakfast — ► NOUN ▪ a meal eaten in the morning, the first of the day. ► VERB ▪ eat this meal. ● have for breakfast Cf. ↑have for breakfast ORIGIN from BREAK(Cf. ↑breakable) + …   English terms dictionary

  • breakfast — [brek′fəst] n. [ BREAK + FAST2] the first meal of the day vi. to eat breakfast vt. to give breakfast to …   English World dictionary

  • Breakfast — Break fast, v. t. To furnish with breakfast. Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Breakfast — Break fast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {breakfasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Breakfasting}.] To break one s fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. [1913 Webster] First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. Prior. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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