breakfast
(brekfəst )
Word forms: breakfasts , breakfasting , breakfasted
1. variable noun A1
Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
What's for breakfast?
...breakfast cereal.
2. See also bed and breakfast, continental breakfast, English breakfast
3. countable noun [adjective NOUN] A1
A cooked breakfast or a hot breakfast is a breakfast that consists of cooked food, such as bacon and eggs.
4. verb meal
When you breakfast, you have breakfast. [formal]
We breakfasted on the balcony. [VERB adverb/preposition]
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Collocations:
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Her spokesman yesterday denied claims she was sick over a breakfast buffet after a night out.
The Sun
Even with the breakfast buffet gone, she's in a sweet spot: sandwiched between struggling independents and fancier hotels.
Times,Sunday Times
Bedrooms are cool and quirky, and a breakfast buffet and fresh smoothies are served on the wooden decking.
Times, Sunday Times
Their marshalling of the breakfast buffet was a spectacle as impressive as pancakes and dim sum on the same plate.
Times, Sunday Times
I enjoyed the huge breakfast buffet, which was well worth getting up for.
The Sun
So you might find a version of your favourite sweet from childhood arrives with your petits fours, or that breakfast dish comes with your favourite cereal.
Times, Sunday Times
A very simple breakfast dish, tamago kake gohan, consists simply of plain rice mixed with a raw egg, and perhaps soy sauce.
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Clabber, a yogurt-like food made with soured milk, was a standard breakfast dish and was eaten by backcountry settlers of all ages.
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It has friendly staff, an even friendlier cat, a cosy bar and imaginative breakfast dishes.
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There was a vast array of extremely fine breakfast dishes.
Times, Sunday Times
Over a very busy breakfast meeting, one of the interns asked me if he could have a coffee.
Times, Sunday Times
And yesterday's hour-long breakfast meeting highlighted the growing rapport between the two.
The Sun
An unfruitful breakfast meeting with a university contemporary who now runs his own communications business.
Times, Sunday Times
A parishioner didn't show up for our 6 a.m. breakfast meeting after he'd insisted we meet as soon as possible.
Christianity Today
Or at least not a useful kind that makes you more efficient or more able to smile through a breakfast meeting.
Times, Sunday Times
Fish and chips, vegetable curry, burgers and roast chicken all featured in the evening and there was a good breakfast menu too.
The Sun
It has a great outdoor terrace and offers a great breakfast menu.
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The breakfast menu was clearly designed for people planning to walk it off.
Times, Sunday Times
Everyone has managed to understand that unless eg has been spitefully included in a breakfast menu (which local councils rarely provide) it doesn't mean egg.
Times, Sunday Times
The breakfast menu includes apricots steeped in local honey, and smoked haddock with poached egg and a chive butter sauce.
Times, Sunday Times
As a breakfast muffin with hash browns, it hit the spot but without the calorie payload.
The Sun
The next stage will be to persuade the increasingly prosperous cities of the hinterland that their life would be substantially better with a skinny latte and a breakfast muffin.
Times, Sunday Times
The high-fat group was allowed lasagne and breakfast muffins, even on fast days (albeit in smaller portions in order to keep to 500 calories).
Times, Sunday Times
A new kitchen was installed last year, with new cabinets, floors, and the construction of a breakfast nook.
Globe and Mail
Would our family fit round that breakfast nook?
Times, Sunday Times
The dining room, living room, breakfast nook and kitchen all open to the garden area which has a fountain.
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The original structure had five rooms: living room, bedroom, breakfast nook kitchen, and bathroom.
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The first floor contains a center hallway with a kitchen, breakfast nook and parlor.
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Breakfast sandwiches, while lucrative, were so pungent that the inviting aroma of fresh coffee was masked, so they were replaced.
Times, Sunday Times
The telephone in the shop began to ring at about quarter to five as she was making breakfast sandwiches.
Times, Sunday Times
Breakfast sandwiches can also be made from scratch in the home.
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Breakfast sandwiches are served at fast food restaurants and delicatessens or bought as fast, ready to heat and eat sandwiches from a store.
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This popular event involves the cooking of hundreds of breakfast sandwiches which are sold to students and delivered to various campus faculty and offices.
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Price includes a signed book, breakfast tea and scones.
Times, Sunday Times
The sugar ran out, so there was nothing to sweeten the breakfast tea.
Times, Sunday Times
The breakfast tea was hardly dry on our lips before we were climbing into cockpits and rocketing into blustery skies.
Times, Sunday Times
A really strong breakfast tea works best, because the tannin helps to cut through the sweetness of the dates.
Times, Sunday Times
They all had a box in the wall by the door where they would put your breakfast tray, which included those individual packets of cereal.
Times, Sunday Times
Every breakfast tray sports a facsimile of the manuscript.
The Times Literary Supplement
I put down his breakfast tray and went to have a closer look at him.
Times, Sunday Times
I saw him in the hotel lobby taking a breakfast tray up to their suite.
Times, Sunday Times
I had a special breakfast tray made for him, with a piece cut out for his belly.
Times, Sunday Times
Buy tickets and you'll get early entrance, complimentary breakfast, free parking for the day and a souvenir gift.
The Sun
Guests also receive complimentary breakfast, and drinks and snacks throughout the day.
Times, Sunday Times
Room prices start at 215 and include a complimentary breakfast and use of all facilities.
The Sun
Hang the special paper bag outside your door each night and it will be filled with a complimentary breakfast of granola yoghurt, banana and orange juice.
Times, Sunday Times
Complimentary breakfast and dim sum are available for the executive floor.
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Set an alarm and cook breakfast together before work, for example, or make time for a weekly coffee catch-up or date night.
Times,Sunday Times
First, they have to cook breakfast for army cadets fresh from a long field-training exercise.
Times, Sunday Times
I head straight to the kitchen to cook breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
Would you cook breakfast in a pan made from a crashed plane?
The Sun
He was then moved to a team where he was expected to cook breakfast.
The Sun
It makes a delicious breakfast that will keep you going all morning.
Times, Sunday Times
After a restful night's sleep in your suite, you'll wake up to a delicious breakfast fit for celebrity royalty.
The Sun
Plus there's fantastic entertainment, a delicious breakfast and access to all bars and restaurants.
The Sun
If you don't fancy cooking your own meals, order a delicious breakfast or dinner to be delivered to your door.
The Sun
Instead of struggling to write a witty comment about the delicious breakfast you've just scoffed, just snap a picture and share it with a hashtag or two.
The Sun
Almost 80 per cent eat breakfast every day.
The Sun
If you wake with a headache, always eat breakfast and have a cup of tea or glass of water.
Times, Sunday Times
No more fighting to turn pages over while trying to eat breakfast at the same time.
Times,Sunday Times
The skippers who had made themselves eat breakfast lost an average of 0.76kg.
Times, Sunday Times
I hate room-only rates - who doesn't eat breakfast?
Times, Sunday Times
The news comes when cutbacks are being made, including denying 'nonessential' staff free breakfast at the training ground.
The Sun
The hotel has room service, free breakfast and complimentary cakes and coffee throughout the day.
The Sun
They also offered incentives including a free upgrade, discounts on food and spa treatments, free breakfast, and free parking.
The Sun
Free breakfast, fresh fruit, snacks throughout the day.
The Sun
The hotel itself has a free breakfast and happy hour served on its main roof terrace.
Times, Sunday Times
He orders coffee and a fried breakfast; he's polite, eager, even, despite the jet lag.
Times, Sunday Times
I would also start the weekend with a fried breakfast.
The Sun
Home fries — mealy potatoes served with a fried breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
He even washed down the big fried breakfast he had every morning with the sugar-filled drink.
The Sun
She said his 'guilty' text was an apology for eating a fried breakfast when he was on a diet.
Times, Sunday Times
To stoke up your defences, eat a healthy breakfast and drink plenty of fluids.
The Sun
I always have a healthy breakfast: cereal, a bit of toast, yoghurt, fruit, lots of water.
Times, Sunday Times
But making time to have a healthy breakfast plays several important roles.
The Sun
Your metabolism slows while you're asleep so eat a healthy breakfast to kick-start your body into calorie-burning mode.
The Sun
She said a healthy breakfast should acount for almost a quarter of our daily calorie intake.
The Sun
In other words, you don't always compensate for a hearty breakfast by eating less throughout the day.
Times, Sunday Times
Fully refreshed after a lie-in in our four-poster bed and a hearty breakfast, we picked up our electric chariot from the hotel manager.
The Sun
Drinking sweet drinks such as orange juice and eating a hearty breakfast to restore blood sugar levels helps.
Times, Sunday Times
Each morning started with a hearty breakfast and transfer to the start of the walk.
The Sun
It's enough to leave one feeling exhausted — and in need of a hearty breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
Bosses at the commercial station want him to host their breakfast show.
The Sun
Not the best idea if you're hosting a breakfast show the following day.
The Sun
He later jointly hosted the breakfast show.
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There's nothing like a hot breakfast to get you going in chilly winter.
Times, Sunday Times
If you've done a run and haven't eaten for 12 hours, a hot breakfast may be waiting, but you're back out without getting any.
The Sun
It was a local farmer with our hot breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
For that, you get larger windows, hot breakfast and lunch, and free snacks and soft drinks.
Times, Sunday Times
They've launched a new on-board menu too with hot breakfast choices, ham and cheese croissants for 3.25, portions of chips for 2.80 and toasted paninis from 4.45.
The Sun
The 'rich trivia of domesticity' no longer appeals - her childlike pleasure in a hotel breakfast, even the ability to be diverted by fiction, has disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
At 7.30 am, a horrifying hotel breakfast: butternut squash strata, with laura chenel chèvre, currant beurre noisette, and glazed carrots.
The Times Literary Supplement
It was a late start the following morning, but the excellent hotel breakfast was the perfect remedy.
The Sun
After enjoying several of them into the early hours, the hotel breakfast, pool and spa provided the perfect pick-me-up next morning.
The Sun
There he professed an aversion to flip-flops, but approved of making a packed lunch from a hotel breakfast buffet.
Times, Sunday Times
Somewhat surprising, then, that the room rate doesn't include breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
Every year troops eat around two million ration packs - which include breakfast, lunch and dinner plus snacks.
The Sun
All rates are per night, based on two people sharing a double room, and include breakfast unless otherwise stated.
Times, Sunday Times
They include breakfast, four evening meals and luggage transfers.
The Sun
Room rates start at 130 and include breakfast and all-day snacks.
Times, Sunday Times
He was so relaxed and wellresearched it seemed he had invited a few old pals round for a chat over a leisurely breakfast.
The Sun
Now millions in lockdown are rediscovering the lost pleasure of a leisurely breakfast, sitting down to boiled eggs in cups with soldiers and pots of leaf tea.
Times,Sunday Times
After a top-notch leisurely breakfast, we hit the loungers.
The Sun
Surely after four months the novelty of leisurely breakfasts and precious family time has lost its lustre?
Times,Sunday Times
Almost a fifth said that families were eating more meals together with sales of teapots and egg cups on the rise as people had more leisurely breakfasts together.
Times,Sunday Times
Game day would start with a very light breakfast (omelette or scrambled eggs) and not very much for lunch, if anything.
Times, Sunday Times
I had a light breakfast of toast and cereal and a cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
Juices make great snacks or a light breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
We usually have quite a light breakfast and a proper lunch.
Times, Sunday Times
We will serve a light breakfast, and every attendee will receive a bag of resources and books worth over $125.
Christianity Today
There are packages available for marathon runners that include a nutritious breakfast plus a coach to get you to the start line.
The Sun
Just add hot water for a warming and nutritious breakfast.
The Sun
Research shows that memory test scores are significantly higher when people eat a nutritious breakfast.
The Sun
If taken with a banana, this drink could make a nutritious breakfast.
The Sun
She shares some nutritious breakfast ideas below.
The Sun
Consequently, the choir holds an annual pancake breakfast to raise funds.
Christianity Today
He was hit with such force that the sound, picked upby the mike, carried throughout the shocked crowd lined up for a pancake breakfast.
Globe and Mail
It included theatrical performances, a pancake breakfast, clam chowder cookoff, midnight market and street entertainment.
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The rodeo also features a parade and a pancake breakfast.
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It starts off with a pancake breakfast and ends with a baked bean supper.
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Marinas are great for people-watching; cables and masts clanging in the breeze, people stumbling up out of their boats to stretch and prepare breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
Staff are on hand to prepare breakfast — and dinner if required.
Times, Sunday Times
There's a maid service six days a week and a housekeeper who can prepare breakfast and light lunch, plus a chef service can be arranged at an additional cost.
Times, Sunday Times
I have earl grey tea and prepare breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
The families are left facing their first challenge when trying to prepare breakfast the next morning.
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I skip breakfast and eat lunch on the go.
The Sun
One in four do not get to bed early enough and a third skip breakfast to avoid being late.
The Sun
To then skip breakfast would equal to about 15 or more hours without food or fuel for your muscles.
The Sun
Much of the advice - don't skip breakfast; avoid sunburn - will be familiar.
Times, Sunday Times
Our morning refuelling has come forward by an hour as we start work earlier or skip breakfast.
The Sun
The next morning, a sumptuous breakfast includes natural yogurt with sultanas, fresh-fruit salad served with homemade jam and breads plus an omelette.
The Sun
His face broke into a teary-eyed grin; he ordered a sumptuous breakfast and, his arm round my shoulders, led me to dine.
Times, Sunday Times
There are sumptuous breakfasts served up in the cosy dining room, or afternoon tea and croquet in the delightful garden.
Times, Sunday Times
Definitely try some of the tasty breakfast snacks at this family-run business.
The Sun
A spokeswoman said the trend for a tasty breakfast was partly a result of cramming in visits to relatives.
Times, Sunday Times
Add the milk to porridge and smoothies or pour it over cereals for a tasty breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
Rooms start at 160, including a very tasty breakfast.
The Sun
The small malt loaf cakes, ideal as a snack or tasty breakfast, are a great alternative to crumpets or teacakes.
The Sun
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Japanese: 朝食
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