breakfast

[brek-fuh st]

noun

the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.

the food eaten at the first meal of the day: a breakfast of bacon and eggs.

verb (used without object)

to eat breakfast: He breakfasted on bacon and eggs.

verb (used with object)

to supply with breakfast: We breakfasted the author in the finest restaurant.

Origin of breakfast

First recorded in 1425–75, breakfast is from the late Middle English word brekfast. See break, fast²

Related formsbreak·fast·er, nounbreak·fast·less, adjectivepost·break·fast, adjective

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Examples from the Web for post-breakfast

Historical Examples of post-breakfast

That post-breakfast moment is the only peace-moment I know in my day and in my life.
I, Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane
But I have not time to enlarge; breakfast calls me; and all my post-breakfast time must be given to poetry.
The Works of William Cowper
William Cowper
At that I rose and walked a few paces to knock out my post-breakfast pipe against an apple-tree.
The Thing from the Lake
Eleanor M. Ingram

British Dictionary definitions for post-breakfast

breakfast

noun

the first meal of the day
(as modifier)breakfast cereal; a breakfast room

the food at this meal

(in the Caribbean) a midday meal

verb

to eat or supply with breakfast

Derived Formsbreakfaster, noun

Word Origin for breakfast

C15: from break + fast ²

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Word Origin and History for post-breakfast

breakfast

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."