breakfast

noun

1. 1

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

   You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.

   I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.

   A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector.

   His servant then flew like lightning and returned with a fine breakfast of wine and milk, and beautiful white bread and fruits, and such other things as little boys are fond of.

2. 2

   A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.

   We serve breakfast all day.

3. 3

   The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).

4. 4

   A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.

   The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

verb

1. 1

   To eat the morning meal.

   May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

   “Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted![…]”

   Fifty years ago, the traveller might breakfast well at home in London, and take nothing more than a cup of coffee at King's Cross.

2. 2

   To serve breakfast to.

   By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea

Forms

plural

breakfasts

past tense

breakfasted

past participle

breakfasted

present participle

breakfasting

third person singular

breakfasts