bed-and-breakfast

or bed and break·fast

[ bed-n-brek-fuhst ]

/ ˈbɛd nˈbrɛk fəst /

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noun

an accommodation offered by an inn, hotel, or especially a private home, consisting of a room for the night and breakfast the next morning for one inclusive price.

an inn, hotel, or private home offering such an accommodation. Abbreviation: B&B

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Origin of bed-and-breakfast

First recorded in 1905–10

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How to use bed-and-breakfast in a sentence

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There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.
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My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
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I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.
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She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
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She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
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But she told Grandfather Mole that it was all right—that she knew a person of his age ought not to go without his breakfast.
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The embankment or road-bed was commenced by gigantic piling, and is very broad and substantial.
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Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

British Dictionary definitions for bed-and-breakfast

bed and breakfast

/ mainly British /

noun

(in a hotel, boarding house, etc) overnight accommodation and breakfast

adjective

(of a stock-exchange transaction) establishing a loss for tax purposes, shares being sold after hours one evening and bought back the next morning when the market opens

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with bed-and-breakfast

bed and breakfast

Also, B and B. A hotel or other hostelry that offers a room for the night and a morning meal at an inclusive price. For example, Staying at a bed and breakfast meant never having to plan morning meals. This term and the practice originated in Britain and have become widespread. [Early 1900s]