Breakfast
['brekfəst] or ['brɛkfəst]
Definition
(noun.) the first meal of the day (usually in the morning).
(verb.) eat an early morning meal; 'We breakfast at seven'.
(verb.) provide breakfast for.
Inputed by Elsa--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
(n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general.
(v. i.) To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
(v. t.) To furnish with breakfast.
Checker: Tanya
Definition
n. a break or breaking of a fast: the first meal of the day.—v.i. to take breakfast.—v.t. to furnish with breakfast.—ns. Break′fasting the act of taking breakfast: a party at breakfast; Break′fast-set the china or other ware used at breakfast.
Checker: Sumner
Unserious Contents or Definition
Is favorable to persons engaged in mental work. To see a breakfast of fresh milk and eggs and a well filled dish of ripe fruit, indicates hasty, but favorable changes. If you are eating alone, it means you will fall into your enemies' trap. If you are eating with others it is good. See Meals.
Editor: Nicolas
Examples
- A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He then begins to clear away the breakfast. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The fine crisp morning made her mother feel particularly well and happy at breakfast-time. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- At two o'clock I descended again to the breakfast-room, a little anxiously. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Therefore, betwixt your breakfast and your supper,--on the premises I expect to find you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We shall just be in time to have a little breakfast with him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Amy was up at dawn, hustling people out of their beds and through their breakfasts, that the house might be got in order. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- After four breakfasts and a gallon of champagne, to serve us such a scurvy trick. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A modest little cottage but a bright and a fresh, and on the snowy tablecloth the prettiest of little breakfasts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- People couldn't ask one to wedding breakfasts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My lady and Mr. Franklin breakfasted together. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I have breakfasted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A good, contented, well-breakfasted juryman is a capital thing to get hold of. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He is to have breakfasted and be gone by half-past nine. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- HAVE you breakfasted, ma'am. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Have YOU breakfasted, sir? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Have you breakfasted? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- While breakfasting he considered whether he should ride to Middlemarch at once, or wait for Lydgate's arrival. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was breakfasting at the Ellisons,and her letter, with some others, was brought to me there from my lodgings. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I should have had the honour of breakfasting with you, to-morrow morning. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I found him stretched on the sofa, breakfasting on brandy and soda-water, and a dry biscuit. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Editor: Sweeney