The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
Used in a Sentence
breakfast
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for breakfast.
Editorial note
My father, approaching 70, does Sudoku with his breakfast every morning to keep his mind sharp.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of breakfast gathered in one view.
The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
(by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for breakfast.
noun
The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
noun
The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
noun
(by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
verb
(intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
Example sentences
My father, approaching 70, does Sudoku with his breakfast every morning to keep his mind sharp.
I'll go in, get an Americano and sometimes a breakfast sandwich, and sit and work until lunch time.
See eg Chris Evans getting sacked from the Breakfast Show after making demands.
Much like fructose, but I have found that coconut oil gives me more energy than a fructose based breakfast.
At the office we have free breakfast, weekly tech talks, good benefits and competitive pay.
A sort of intellectual breakfast pic, anything more serious doesn't belong.
Also, the elephant totally absent from the room because it starved to death due to having its breakfast, lunch and dinner eaten - pocket consoles.
I've been using Soylent for breakfast for about a year now.
Etc: Catered breakfast daily; lunch on Fridays.
If she thinks we are awake, moan again to demand breakfast.
Then an hour or two later, I start drinking iced green tea with no sugar and eat a breakfast with carbs, then I take: 1.
I really like it, and it's nice not to have to worry about breakfast which occurs at a time of day I am not interested in food preparation.
Quote examples
Would you have any interest in demoing this at the "other" breakfast in NYC - NYC TechBreakfast?
I think it is in part a fantastic re-imagining of Delaney's own early years as recounted more prosodically in "Heavenly Breakfast"[2].
I myself often skip breakfast or lunch because i'm busy, and eventually 9am turns into 10am turns into 11am turns into "Welp, i may as well just eat lunch".
It is a strange place where people post a bundle of heroin and some cocaine and title the post "my breakfast (:", but also when a long time member says that they quit, there are dozens of congratulatory posts.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use breakfast in a sentence?
My father, approaching 70, does Sudoku with his breakfast every morning to keep his mind sharp.
What does breakfast mean?
The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
What part of speech is breakfast?
breakfast is commonly used as noun, verb.