breakfast

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Regno Unito//ˈbreɪkˌfɑːst//
Stati Uniti//ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst//
//ˈbɹɛk.fəst//

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

sostantivo

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
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
The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
4
A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

Etimologia

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”).

verbo

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

Forme

plurale: breakfasts
passato: breakfasted
participio passato: breakfasted
participio presente: breakfasting
3ª persona singolare: breakfasts

break-in · The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or…breakdown · A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.breaker · Something that breaks (something else).

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

breaking · The act by which something is broken.breakthrough · Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.breakup · The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.

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