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Breakfast   /brˈɛkfəst/   Listen
noun
Breakfast  n.  
1.
The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. "A sorry breakfast for my lord protector."
2.
A meal after fasting, or food in general. "The wolves will get a breakfast by my death."


verb
Breakfast  v. t.  To furnish with breakfast.


Breakfast  v. i.  (past & past part. breakfasted; pres. part. breakfasting)  To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. "First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast."





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"Breakfast" Quotes from Famous Books



... my gold held out. Anyhow, those punks are way overrated. Tricky, maybe, and they lie good. They'd rather bump you off than eat breakfast." ...
— Satan and the Comrades • Ralph Bennitt
... breakfast, girlie," promised he. "There'll be the wherewithal to garnish our 18-k, never fear. Just let's have a look up-stairs, and then I'll go ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... yours; they can call no better one." My father dipped a hand in his pocket. "I may not invite you to breakfast with us to-morrow, for we start early; and you will excuse me if I sin against custom. . . . It was esteemed a laudable practice in my time." ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... to the proof" he was already deeply involved in what came to be known as "the plot against Ulster," to which his words were doubtless an allusion. That plot may perhaps have originated at Mr. Lloyd George's breakfast-table on the 11th, when he entertained Mr. Redmond, Mr. Dillon, Mr. Devlin, Mr. O'Connor, and the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr. Birrell; for on the same day it was decided to send a squadron of battleships with attendant cruisers and destroyers ...
— Ulster's Stand For Union • Ronald McNeill
... wash up if you care to do so, and I will send you some breakfast," announced Captain Dale, and then left them in the room, ...
— The Rover Boys at Colby Hall - or The Struggles of the Young Cadets • Arthur M. Winfield


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