Definition of Breakfast

Break´fast
n.1.The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
A sorry breakfast for my lord protector.
- Shak.
2.A meal after fasting, or food in general.
The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
- Dryden.
v. i.1.To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
[imp. & p. p. breakfasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breakfasting.]
First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
- Prior.
v. t.1.To furnish with breakfast.


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