breakfast

Definition

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

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”).

Example Sentences

• "You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow."
• "A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector."
• "Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia’s mother was not a humourist."

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