breakfast means the first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 69 out of 100.
breakfast is pronounced /ˈbɹɛk.fəst/.
Etymology
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”).
noun
- The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.“You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.”
- A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.“We serve breakfast all day.”
- The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
- A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.“The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.”
verb
- To eat the morning meal.“May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.
First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.”
- To serve breakfast to.“By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea”