breakfast

breakfast

/ˈbrekfəst/

​the first meal of the day

They were having breakfast when I arrived.

She doesn't eat much breakfast.

a big/hearty/light breakfast

(especially British English) a cooked breakfast

for breakfast

Do you want bacon and eggs for breakfast?

We had cereal for breakfast.

a bowl of breakfast cereal

Julianne was sitting in the breakfast room, calmly sipping a cup of tea.

Collocations

adjective

breakfast + noun

phrases

breakfast in bed

Idioms

e.g.

breakfast

/ˈbrekfəst/

​breakfast (on something) to eat breakfast

Many of the hotel’s guests had already breakfasted and departed.

They breakfasted on coffee and hot rolls.

Word Origin

late Middle English: from the verb break + the verb fast.