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Synonyms for breakfast
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : brek-fuh st |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbrɛk fəst |
Définition of breakfast
Origin :- mid-15c., from break (v.) + fast (n.). The verb is recorded from 1670s. Related: Breakfasted; breakfasting.
- Spanish almuerzo "lunch," but formerly and still locally "breakfast," is from Latin admorsus, past participle of admordere "to bite into," from ad- "to" + mordere "to bite." In common with almuerzo, words for "breakfast" tend over time to shift in meaning toward "lunch;" cf. French déjeuner "breakfast," later "lunch" (equivalent of Spanish desayuno "breakfast"), both from Vulgar Latin *disieiunare "to breakfast," from Latin dis- + ieiunare, jejunare "fast" (see jejune; also cf. dine). German Frühstück is from Middle High German vruostücke, literally "early bit." Old English had morgenmete "morning meal."
- noun first meal of the day
- On a morning late in May Mrs. Bines and her daughter were at breakfast.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- You can't get them too cold for Perce at breakfast, nowadays.
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- You began to look bad as soon as you left off your breakfast.
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- The Bineses, with the exception of Psyche, were at breakfast a week later.
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- Why, we wasted enough from breakfast to feed a small family.
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- "I feel as if I should like some fish for breakfast," said Robert one morning, on waking up.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- She came down to breakfast singing the words in a sort of ecstasy.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- She came down to the dining-room long after breakfast was over.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- As I eat my breakfast and smoke my pipe, I ponder over my task.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- As soon as breakfast was over, the whole family set out for a walk.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
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