breakfast

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɹɛkfəst/
• (meal eaten after religious fasting) also IPA: /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/

Noun

breakfast

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

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

   • 1591, Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, act 1:

     a sorry breakfast for my lord protector

2. (by extension) 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. (largely obsolete, outside, religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.

   • The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

Translations

• French: petit déjeuner (France), déjeuner (Belgium)
• German: Frühstück, Zmorgen (Swiss German), (Swiss German) Morgenessen
• Italian: colazione, prima colazione
• Portuguese: (Brazil) café da manhã, pequeno-almoço, desjejum,(Angola) mata-bicho
• Russian: за́втрак
• Spanish: desayuno

Verb

breakfast (breakfasts, present participle breakfasting; past and past participle breakfasted)

1. (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, volume II, chapter I, page 12

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

   • First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

2. (transitive) To serve breakfast to.

Synonyms

• break one's fast

Translations

• French: prendre le petit-déjeuner
• German: frühstücken
• Portuguese: desjejuar
• Russian: за́втракать
• Spanish: desayunar

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